Extract Drupal encoded data using MySQL from Ubercart table

[Sakora]

I am writing an integration piece between Drupal/Ubercart and a in-house admin system.The customer uses Ubercart products with attributes (e.g. a Plaque, which can contain a name, a company, a registration date and month). When an order is placed, the values entered for the attributes are written to \[code\]uc_order_products\[/code\], where the \[code\]data\[/code\] field contains the actual values entered by the user. As far as I can tell, this is the only place where product attributes values, as entered by an end user to place an order, is stored.The encoded attribute values uses a format seen all over Drupal tables to encode objects:\[code\]a:3:{s:10:"attributes";a:4:{s:26:"Name (to appear on plaque)";a:1:{i:0;s:10:"Some Namee";}s:7:"Company";a:1:{i:0;s:28:"Some Company Name Goes here_";}s:19:"Certification Month";a:1:{i:0;s:0:"";}s:18:"Certification Year";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"2011";}}s:9:"shippable";s:1:"1";s:6:"module";s:10:"uc_product";}\[/code\]And expanded, it looks like this:\[code\]a:3:{ s:10:"attributes"; a:4: { s:26:"Name (to appear on plaque)"; a:1: { i:0; s:10:"Some Namee"; } s:7:"Company"; a:1: { i:0; s:28:"Some Company Name Goes Herep"; } s:19:"Certification Month"; a:1: { i:0; s:0:""; } s:18:"Certification Year"; a:1: { i:0; s:4:"2011"; } } s:9:"shippable"; s:1:"1"; s:6:"module"; s:10:"uc_product";}\[/code\]I there a simple way to get to the individual field values within this text using SQL? I can write a SQL function to go look for specifics, but I'd like to know if someone knows of an existing MySQL approach (perhaps within Drupal) which would do this.Thanks!