help with storing a large binary number as bigint

Hey all, This should be a relatively simple question but after looking through the manual for a while I didn't see how to do it. I am working in php and need to store a large binary number in the database. When I try and convert it to a int in php its too big so it converts it to a float and I lo

Ram disk and solid state disks for data acceleration

Hey all, Any one with any experience with using solid state disks and or ram disks to store mysql data/tmp directoies/logs? How much performance gain do you think I would see? We have a very high write/read database using myisam tables. We are unable to migrate to other table types because of co