Integer fields for zip codes can be problematic in the case of a zip code
like 08817 (tends to strip off the leading zero).

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Timothy Laureska <
tlaure...@dhmh.state.md.us> wrote:

>
> Is there any reason you're not using an integer field type of some sort?
>
>
> >>> Douglas Brown <mistobr...@gmail.com> 10/22/2009 2:24 PM >>>
>
> >I'd need to see the datatype of the zipcode column as well as the content
> >of the 'valid zipcode' variable before I could answer the question, but my
> >guess would be that there's a discrepancy in datatype:  '#validZipCode#'
> >when it should be #validZipCode# or something like that.
>
>
> The datatype is nvarchar(5) the zipcode is just a simple US zipcode '81416'
> for example.
>
>
>
> 

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