Where are Options for Orders Saved?

I’m trying to do some custom coding and I was wondering how to decipher the options selected for a purchase via the database field extra in the cscart_order_detials table.



I get that all of the info for a particular order is saved in the order_details table but I’m a little confused how I can extract the options for the particular item purchased via the extra field.



Any help is greatly appreciated.



Thanks!

Julie