Querying a string from int column?

Question

I have a table:

CREATE TABLE `ids` (
    id int(11) not null auto_increment,
    PRIMARY KEY (id)
);

It contains some IDs: 111, 112, 113, 1

Answer 1

lame + kills optimization but serves it purpose

SELECT * FROM `ids` WHERE concat(id) = '112abcdefg';

that way you enforce casting to string http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/type-conversion.html