assume that the empty string, or a set with a single empty string
value, is in fact a set with a single empty string; instead, this
is by default treated as the empty set.  In order to handle persistence
of a :class:`.mysql.SET` that actually wants to include the blank
value ``''`` as a legitimate value, a new bitwise operational mode
is added which is enabled by the
:paramref:`.mysql.SET.retrieve_as_bitwise` flag, which will persist
and retrieve values unambiguously using their bitflag positioning.
Storage and retrieval of unicode values for driver configurations
that aren't converting unicode natively is also repaired.
fixes #3283

and regexp parsing of SQL in order to form a complete picture of
constraints + their names.  fixes #3244 fixes #3261
- factor various PRAGMA work to be centralized into one call

VARBINARY(max) for large text/binary types.  The MSSQL dialect will
now respect this based on version detection, as well as the new
``deprecate_large_types`` flag.
fixes #3039

:class:`.sqlite.TIME`,
or :class:`.sqlite.DATETIME` types, and given a ``storage_format`` that
only renders numbers, will render the types in DDL as
``DATE_CHAR``, ``TIME_CHAR``, and ``DATETIME_CHAR``, so that despite the
lack of alpha characters in the values, the column will still
deliver the "text affinity".  Normally this is not needed, as the
textual values within the default storage formats already
imply text.
fixes #3257

Patch courtesy Gabor Gombas.
fixes #3127