On 12/13/2012 5:53 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
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
+1
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