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Laravel query builder

The fluent SQL-building layer in Laravel that Eloquent sits on top of, exposing where-style methods that each database grammar compiles into driver-specific SQL.

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whereBinary() retires Laravel's raw BINARY workaround one call site at a time

Laravel 13.x adds whereBinary and three variants, compiling on MySQL to = binary ? with the value bound. The fix applies per call site, so the column collation stays as it is and every query you leave alone behaves as before.

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