I have a column value stored in the database as:
a:2:{i:0;s:2:”US”;i:1;s:2:”19″;}
I want to unserialize it during the mysql query rather than using the php unserialize function after fetching the data.
I want to do it this way so I can join another table with the serialized value. This would avoid executing a separate query after unserializing it with php, just for the joined data.
MySQL doesn’t know what a PHP serialization is. You can’t do it.