title: How to get the byte size of resultset in an SQL query?
body: <p>Is it possible to get the size in bytes of the results of an sql query in MySQL?</p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>select * from sometable;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>ths returns 10000 rows. I don't want the rows but the size of the resultset in bytes. Is it possible?</p>