One usefull example of this, someone using a database to session information might want to store and update session variables 1 at a time to reduce the amount of data passed around in large sessions. At this time the only way to do that is to unserialize the data on writes and serialize the data on reads manually.
-- Richard Thomas - CEO Cyberlot Technologies Group Inc. 507.398.4124 - Voice
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