[thelist] a Monday Freebie

Scott Dexter sgd at ti3.com
Tue Aug 1 09:56:46 CDT 2000


Because storing it as a number takes up half the space.

and when you're dealing with millions of records, that's a lot of space =)

sgd
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Patrick [mailto:apatrick at oracular.com]
> 
> > While this is kewl and all, why not just store it as a char(9)? 
> 
> I can't bring myself to disagree with you...




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