That's very true but these days, some languages/databases allow for strings
to be assigned to numbers and vice versa without the need for conversion.
PHP is one such language, not that I'm bagging it or anything as I use it
myself. I just call it bad type checking.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Strickland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 22:35
Subject: RE: Quoting numbers? (was Re:MySQL Tables)
> It's all to do with data types, traditionally and across most languages
> quotes are used to delimit STRINGS
> and a string is NOT a number although may represent one when displayed.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Pete Harlan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: 21 February 2001 20:51
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Quoting numbers? (was Re:MySQL Tables)
> >
> > > I think you'll get better results if you don't quote your numbers.
> > Quotes
> > > should be used for text and dates (depending) but not numbers.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, why?
> >
> > We use quotes for numbers all the time here, for consistency's sake;
> > the programmer doesn't have to worry about the representation of, say,
> > a salesman_id, but just reads/displays/stores it in the database.
> >
> > Aside from the fact that leaving them off is possible, is there a
> > standards/compatibility/other reason to do so?
> >
> > (An example of a good reason not to use them would be if the db engine
> > weren't smart enough to use an index when you say
> >
> > select * from table_name where numeric_key = '1234'
> >
> > but possibly (probably?) all dbms's are that smart.)
> >
> > --Pete
> >
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