title: Storing MD5 values in a database
body: <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
    <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2326584/best-practices-for-efficiently-storing-md5-hashes-in-mysql">Best practices for efficiently storing md5 hashes in mysql</a>  </p>
  </blockquote>
  
  
  
  <p>We use Hex representation of MD5 values in our system.</p>
  
  <p>Will it be wise to store them in our MySQL DB as integers instead of strings?
  will that improve searching the table using the MD5 column?</p>
  
  <p>Thank You</p>