diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 781fb635..1e920d0a 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ t/35prepare.t
 t/40bindparam.t
 t/40bindparam2.t
 t/40bit.t
+t/40blobslarge.t
 t/40blobs.t
 t/40catalog.t
 t/40invalid_attributes.t
diff --git a/t/40blobslarge.t b/t/40blobslarge.t
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..77b90a4b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/40blobslarge.t
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Test::More;
+use DBI;
+use vars qw($test_dsn $test_user $test_password);
+use lib '.', 't';
+require 'lib.pl';
+
+my $dbh = DbiTestConnect($test_dsn, $test_user, $test_password,
+  { RaiseError => 1, PrintError => 0 });
+
+plan tests => 15;
+
+# BLOB maximum size on MariaDB is 65,535
+# LONGBLOB maximum size is 4 GB
+# but effective maximum length of LONGBLOB columns depends 
+# configured maximum packet size and available memory.
+#
+# We test with 512k which should go through on older
+# MySQL and MariaDB
+my $size = (1024 * 512);
+
+ok $dbh->do("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge"), "Drop table if exists dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge";
+
+my $create = <<EOT;
+CREATE TABLE dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge (
+    id INT(3) NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
+    name LONGBLOB )
+EOT
+
+ok ($dbh->do($create));
+
+my ($blob, $qblob) = "";
+my $b = "";
+
+my @out = ( );
+my $chr = 0;
+
+# Create little bit random
+# byte string
+for( 1..$size ) {
+    if($chr >= 255)
+    {
+       $chr = 0;
+    }
+    
+    push @out, chr($chr ++);
+}
+
+$blob = join '', @out;
+
+my $sth = undef;
+
+#   Insert a row into the test table.......
+my $query = "INSERT INTO dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge VALUES(?, ?)";
+
+ok ($sth = $dbh->prepare( $query ));
+
+# See https://metacpan.org/dist/DBD-MariaDB/view/lib/DBD/MariaDB.pod#Binary-parameters
+ok ($sth->bind_param(1, 1, DBI::SQL_INTEGER), "Bind 1 to first param");
+ok ($sth->bind_param(2, $blob, DBI::SQL_BINARY), "Bind BLOB to second param");
+
+ok ($sth->execute(), "Execute INSERT statement");
+
+#   Now, try SELECT'ing the row out.
+ok ($sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT * FROM dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge WHERE id = 1"));
+
+ok ($sth->execute(), "Execute SELECT statement");
+
+ok (my $row = $sth->fetchrow_arrayref);
+
+ok (defined($row), "row returned defined");
+
+is (@$row, 2, "records from dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge returned 2");
+
+is ($$row[0], 1, 'id set to 1');
+
+cmp_ok byte_string($$row[1]), 'eq', byte_string($blob), 'Original blob set equal to blob returned';
+
+ok ($dbh->do("DROP TABLE dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge"), "Drop table dbd_mysql_t40blobslarge");
+
+ok ($dbh->disconnect);