Comments on: 5 ways to make hexadecimal identifiers perform better on MySQL http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/12/5-ways-to-make-hexadecimal-identifiers-perform-better-on-mysql/ Stay curious! Thu, 02 May 2013 12:36:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/12/5-ways-to-make-hexadecimal-identifiers-perform-better-on-mysql/#comment-15906 Xaprb Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:49:30 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=800#comment-15906 It’s fixed-length so there is no need for extra data to record how long the value is. And if the whole table has fixed-length values, then you get FIXED format (in MyISAM).

]]> By: Aurimas http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/12/5-ways-to-make-hexadecimal-identifiers-perform-better-on-mysql/#comment-15905 Aurimas Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:08:08 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=800#comment-15905 Thanks, Baron – very interesting post.

BTW, how is CHAR(32) better than VARCHAR(32) for values of the same length?

]]> By: Todd Troxell http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/12/5-ways-to-make-hexadecimal-identifiers-perform-better-on-mysql/#comment-15821 Todd Troxell Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:41:54 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=800#comment-15821 Great stuff, thanks Xaprb :)

]]> By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/12/5-ways-to-make-hexadecimal-identifiers-perform-better-on-mysql/#comment-15820 Xaprb Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:22:36 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=800#comment-15820 Thanks both of you. Indeed that was a poor choice of words — changed to “sooner”.

]]> By: Shlomi Noach http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2009/02/12/5-ways-to-make-hexadecimal-identifiers-perform-better-on-mysql/#comment-15819 Shlomi Noach Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:04:53 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=800#comment-15819 Hey,

Reading Roland’s comment, I shamefully note to myself that #1 in my comment is already within the post.

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