MySQL Convert Bytes to Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes

Question

I have a logs table that stores various file sizes in bytes. I want to be able to query the database and return the smallest possible float which has been converted to MB GB

Answer 1

I have a more elegant solution (also using a user defined function):

CREATE FUNCTION `format_filesize`(filesize FLOAT) RETURNS varchar(20) CHARSET utf8
BEGIN

DECLARE n INT DEFAULT 1;

LOOP
    IF filesize < 1024 THEN
        RETURN concat(round(filesize, 2), ' ', elt(n, 'Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB', 'BB'));
    END IF;
    SET filesize = filesize / 1024;
    SET n = n + 1;
END LOOP;

END

UPDATE:

Even better, and can be used outside procedures:

SET @filesize = 536870912;
SET @log = IFNULL(TRUNCATE(LOG(1024, @filesize), 0),0);
SELECT CONCAT(ROUND(@filesize / POW(1024, @log), 2), ' ',
            ELT(@log + 1, 'Bytes', 'KB', 'MB', 'GB', 'TB', 'PB', 'EB', 'ZB', 'YB', 'BB'));