On 12/13/12 9:58 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > Change a data column on a a production system. Numeric width and make is > smaller. MySQL will not warn you that your existing data may be incorrect. > It will just do it. #FAIL So 100 units will now = 99 units. Wow that > is so wrong.
The assumption is that the DBA knows what he or she is doing. Duh, changing the precision of a column could affect the data. I would agree with you if we were talking about Excel. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
