At 12:43 2018-04-04, [email protected] wrote:
VFP9
I don't see why folks would use Numeric(X,0) where X > 4 instead of
an Integer field. Can you tell me why? I'm guessing it's leftover
legacy design?
There are a couple that I can think of:
1) Often, the numbers that I am dealing with are defined by number
of digits. For example, my app has work order numbers of up to
999999. "N(6)" covers that nicely and even documents it.
2) The column width in a browse for a column defined as N(?) will
be just right (assuming the caption is not too wide). If I declare
the column as integer, it will be wider than necesssary.
Sincerely,
Gene Wirchenko
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