Michael Glaesemann wrote:
On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:24 , Luca Ferrari wrote:
And moreover a database design question: is a better idea to choose
always
(when possible) numeric keys?
Depends on your requirements. This is an oft-discussed topic about
which you can find many more opinions by googli
On Jan 3, 2007, at 5:24 , Luca Ferrari wrote:
Running the database, the users
decided to place numbers as strings, so values like 00110002 and so
on.
Note that '00110002' is not a number (i.e., it's not equal to
110002): it's a string of digits.
is there a tool or a
way to easily do su
Hi all,
in my database I've got a table with a key that is char string, since it was
supposed to support values like strings. Running the database, the users
decided to place numbers as strings, so values like 00110002 and so on.
Now I was wondering to refactor my database and change the char fie