On Jan 17, 2008 6:38 PM, Michael G Schwern <schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > I think it's already been said, or maybe it went by on Twitter, but there's a > special layer of hell for DBAs who store phone "numbers", social security > "numbers" and PIN "numbers" as numbers.
Ditto with postal codes -- especially because sometimes that "works" and only sometimes does it fall down badly, especially in areas which allow postal codes that start with 0. (That should be a clue that it's not a number, even if it's composed only of digits.) Cheers, -- Philip Newton <philip.new...@gmail.com>
