Bradley Grainger

Possibly related to https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1448, but that bug is `IllegalParameter` not `DecryptError`.

@evilanf What version of MySqlConnector are you using? Make sure it's at least >= 2.3.4 to get this fix: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1409.

Issue appears to be resolved in 2.3.4.

> MySqlConnector seems to configure the connection to receive all content in Unicode Yes, this is by design. MySqlConnector delegates all character set conversions to MySQL Server and only transmits...

This seems like a difference between Shift JIS (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS) and CP932 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_932_(Microsoft_Windows)). Arguably it's a bug to define a DB column as using `sjis` but store `cp932` characters in it:...

I have no plans to support charset conversion in MySqlConnector; it only speaks UTF-8. Customers should be advised to not store `cp932` characters in a `sjis` column but instead use...

Retrieving a connection from the pool is cheaper than opening a new connection, but it's not zero cost; this is by design. Because server sessions are shared between different `MySqlConnection`...

> if "Connection Reset" = true and mysql version is 5.6 - then the reset happens with full-reauthntication which is expensive. > if "Connection Reset" = true and mysql version...

Another existing request for `DATE` columns to be returned as `DateOnly`: https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1231#issuecomment-1278491882

@iamcarbon Created https://github.com/mysql-net/MySqlConnector/issues/1454 for this idea. Note that `MySqlDataReader.GetStream` provides a `Stream` over the existing in-memory data without allocating a new `byte[]` (although it does of course allocate a `Stream`...