diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index f19f4e6..6eae2e4 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <groupId>gwtorm</groupId>
   <artifactId>gwtorm</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>1.1.6</version>
+  <version>1.1.7</version>
   <name>gwtorm</name>
   <description>Tiny ORM</description>
   <url>http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=tools/gwtorm.git</url>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/gwtorm/schema/sql/DialectMySQL.java b/src/main/java/com/google/gwtorm/schema/sql/DialectMySQL.java
index f81ad33..fed1c61 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/gwtorm/schema/sql/DialectMySQL.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/gwtorm/schema/sql/DialectMySQL.java
@@ -41,12 +41,12 @@
         final int type;
 
         if (column.length() <= 0) {
-          r.append("VARCHAR(255)");
+          r.append("VARCHAR(255) BINARY");
           if (col.isNotNull()) {
             r.append(" DEFAULT ''");
           }
         } else if (column.length() <= 255) {
-          r.append("VARCHAR(" + column.length() + ")");
+          r.append("VARCHAR(" + column.length() + ") BINARY");
           if (col.isNotNull()) {
             r.append(" DEFAULT ''");
           }