Jonathan Mangin wrote:
I'm creating a new MySQL database from an existing Filemaker db.
My problem is that some of the existing 'numbers' in one column (it
was a text field in FMP) have leading zeros. eg: 003, 0007, 012,
001234. I need to maintain these numbers 'as is' - complete with
zeros. I've tried all the numeric data types and they all seem to
strip these leading zeros. Is it possible to have a numeric field
type which will maintain those zeros? I want this column to become
the primary key.
"leading zeros" is a typical "display requirement".
An integer value does not have something as leading zeros.
Why not make the VARCHAR the PK and keep the datatype?
Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - development tool for MySQL, and more!
The manual states (among other things) declaring a column:
int(6) zerofill
will left pad the column with zeros.
003 will become 000003.
This won't work with his 3, 4, and 6 character examples.
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