[libreoffice-users] Re: Numerical terms used in Base

2012-08-18 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 16.08.2012 00:28, Jay Lozier wrote: varchar(60) is a text string up to 60 characters long. I believe the actual memory usage is based the number of characters in the string char(15) is a text string up to 15 characters long but enough memory is always used for 15 characters. The length of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Numerical terms used in Base

2012-08-15 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 15.08.2012 22:31, Thomas Taylor wrote: It's been way too many years since I did commercial programming on databases and I've forgotten some of the terms (formats) for numerical data. I'm trying to create a simple database of local facilities/doctors/stores with Base using the wizards. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numerical terms used in Base

2012-08-15 Thread Thomas Taylor
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:53:33 +0200 Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de wrote: Am 15.08.2012 22:31, Thomas Taylor wrote: It's been way too many years since I did commercial programming on databases and I've forgotten some of the terms (formats) for numerical data. I'm trying to create a