I'm doing just general feasibility studying of embedding MySQL in a
networking product, and I have a question that I haven't been able to
find the answer to after a fair bit of looking
- is there some way to insert data that is already in INT UNSIGNED
form directly into a table, without converting it into ASCII and then
having it converted back again by the database? (I know I could use
BLOB, but that would lose some of the benefits of integer-ness.) We
would be using the C API.
This product generates *large* volumes of data, which is currently all
in UINT32 . It would seem to be a large waste of scarce CPU resources
to have to convert every single column to and from ASCII. (the only
issue I could see would be the endian-ness of it, but that could be
managed.)
Thanks for your help.
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