Consider this table schema and data:

CREATE TABLE `foo` (
`id` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`up` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0′,
`down` INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT ‘0′,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
);
INSERT INTO `foo` (`up`, `down`) VALUES(0, 1);

Now, consider this query:

mysql> SELECT (`up` [...]

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