On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Tim Bunce wrote:
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:25:27 +0100
> From: Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "William R. Mussatto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: Tim Bunce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Heikki Tuuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Mysql speed :)
>
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:41:32AM -0700, William R. Mussatto wrote:
> > How do you get it not to try an quote numbers? I realize this should be
> > obvious, but I can't find an exampl in the msql/mysql book.
>
> It's magic. Or specifically it relies on Perl's internal magic.
> Plus, of course, it wouldn't actually matter if it did in this case
> since mysqld will happily convert the strings to numbers anyway.
>
> Tim.
>
Ah. I was wondering about that. I was able to pass numeric/decimal types
as strings but I thought that was becaues they were stored that way
internally (vs. float).
Sincerely,
William Mussatto, Senior Systems Engineer
CyberStrategies, Inc
ph. 909-920-9154 ext. 27
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