On 23 Sep 2012 at 11:37, Baruch Burstein <bmburst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am curious about the usefulness of sqlite's "unique" type handling, and > so would like to know if anyone has ever actually found any practical use > for it/used it in some project? I am referring to the typeless handling, > e.g. storing strings in integer columns etc., not to the non-truncating > system e.g. storing any size number or any length string (which is > obviously very useful in many cases). > Has anyone ever actually taken advantage of this feature? In what case? It's hard to say whether I use this feature or not. It's just one less thing to worry about. It means I don't have to have extra function calls to be sure that some value I'm about to shove into a field has the right type. Since I'm doing it from PHP, half the time I don't know anyway whether something is a string or an integer. The more one can get the Giant Brain to concern itself with this type of thing, so I don't have to, the better. Types - pah! Who needs 'em? -- Cheers -- Tim
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