Tis true Rolf but you can bet your bottom dollar that at somepoint a
confusion will arise
when it is most inconvenient.
There is always a conversion somewhere in the code even if it is not
visible.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rolf Hopkins [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 23 February 2001 02:09
> To: Julian Strickland; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Quoting numbers? (was Re:MySQL Tables)
>
> That's very true but these days, some languages/databases allow for
> strings
> to be assigned to numbers and vice versa without the need for conversion.
> PHP is one such language, not that I'm bagging it or anything as I use it
> myself. I just call it bad type checking.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Strickland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 22:35
> Subject: RE: Quoting numbers? (was Re:MySQL Tables)
>
>
> > 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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