On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 10:59 AM, wrote:
> Not sure I understand what you want, but are you married to having a single
> numeric
> string encode your three/four char data?
no, just trying to be efficient--an integer has four bytes, which
invites me to use it :_)
> It would be so much easier to
Newman
-Original Message-
From: Dr. Hawkins
To: How to use LiveCode
Sent: Sat, Jul 21, 2012 12:24 pm
Subject: Stashing 3 or 4 characters into a text for db storage
As I'm adjusting my data to get ready for postgreSQL instead of
SQLite, I've pretty much settled on having two, r
As I'm adjusting my data to get ready for postgreSQL instead of
SQLite, I've pretty much settled on having two, rather than one, data
tables.
Dollar amounts and other simple things will go into one table, while
text will go into another with a VACHAR type.
I have various calculated properties th
