virtualsafety

-- Decoding
SELECT CONVERT_FROM(DECODE(field, 'BASE64'), 'UTF-8') FROM table;

-- Encoding
SELECT ENCODE(CONVERT_TO(field, 'UTF-8'), 'base64') FROM table;

cjaoude

Use: for testing against email regex
ref: http://codefool.tumblr.com/post/15288874550/list-of-valid-and-invalid-email-addresses


List of Valid Email Addresses

email@example.com
firstname.lastname@example.com
email@subdomain.example.com
firstname+lastname@example.com