Comments on: MySQL Performance Benefits of Storing Integer IP Addresses http://bafford.com/2009/03/09/mysql-performance-benefits-of-storing-integer-ip-addresses/ coding in purple Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:44:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Du0d3c1m http://bafford.com/2009/03/09/mysql-performance-benefits-of-storing-integer-ip-addresses/comment-page-1/#comment-30 Du0d3c1m Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:34:05 +0000 http://bafford.com/?p=269#comment-30 It never ceases to amaze me how you spend hours figuring something out the hard way and then someone else has the exact same problem and solution. I feel strongly about this very issue and support your position completely. On my site there are links to PHP functions which cast this data to integers and back for use in databases other than MySQL. They may provide performance savings over the built in MySQL functions but I highly doubt it. Thank you for the great article. Your research/analysis is much more in depth than anything I have attempted to date. It never ceases to amaze me how you spend hours figuring something out the hard way and then someone else has the exact same problem and solution. I feel strongly about this very issue and support your position completely. On my site there are links to PHP functions which cast this data to integers and back for use in databases other than MySQL. They may provide performance savings over the built in MySQL functions but I highly doubt it.

Thank you for the great article. Your research/analysis is much more in depth than anything I have attempted to date.

]]> By: David Phelan http://bafford.com/2009/03/09/mysql-performance-benefits-of-storing-integer-ip-addresses/comment-page-1/#comment-27 David Phelan Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:26:01 +0000 http://bafford.com/?p=269#comment-27 Excellent analysis. I have always pitched integer storage as preferential because of the ease of comparison with '=' or 'between', but it's been a hard sell for some people. Unlike MySQL, MS SQL Server lacks built-in dotted-decimal to/from uint32 conversion (though it's a straightforward pair of UDFs to write or borrow), so this use case is not quite as obvious to some developers. I will be pointing doubters to your statistics from now on. Excellent analysis. I have always pitched integer storage as preferential because of the ease of comparison with ‘=’ or ‘between’, but it’s been a hard sell for some people. Unlike MySQL, MS SQL Server lacks built-in dotted-decimal to/from uint32 conversion (though it’s a straightforward pair of UDFs to write or borrow), so this use case is not quite as obvious to some developers. I will be pointing doubters to your statistics from now on.

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