It's all to do with data types, traditionally and across most languages
quotes are used to delimit STRINGS
and a string is NOT a number although may represent one when displayed.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Harlan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 21 February 2001 20:51
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Quoting numbers? (was Re:MySQL Tables)
>
> > 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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