> I think you'll get better results if you don't quote your numbers. Quotes
> should be used for text and dates (depending) but not numbers.
Out of curiosity, why?
We use quotes for numbers all the time here, for consistency's sake;
the programmer doesn't have to worry about the representation of, say,
a salesman_id, but just reads/displays/stores it in the database.
Aside from the fact that leaving them off is possible, is there a
standards/compatibility/other reason to do so?
(An example of a good reason not to use them would be if the db engine
weren't smart enough to use an index when you say
select * from table_name where numeric_key = '1234'
but possibly (probably?) all dbms's are that smart.)
--Pete
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