Why not just use the word gender.....
Richard > -----Original Message----- > From: Paul DuBois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:18 AM > To: Defryn, Guy; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad? > > > At 15:58 +1300 2/5/03, Defryn, Guy wrote: > >I was just reading through the Mysql manual section 3.32 > >And came across a sentence that started like this > > > >Animal sex can be represented in a variety of ways > > > >My mother tongue is not English but doesn't it sound rude ? :-) > > Yes, it does, and current versions of the manual are worded > differently: > > Several types of values can be chosen to represent sex in > animal records ... > > > > > > > > >mysql> CREATE TABLE pet (name VARCHAR(20), owner VARCHAR(20), > > -> species VARCHAR(20), sex CHAR(1), birth DATE, death DATE); > > > >VARCHAR is a good choice for the name, owner, and species columns > >because the column values will vary in length. The lengths of those > >columns need not all be the same, and need not be 20. You > can pick any > >length from 1 to 255, whatever seems most reasonable to you. (If you > >make a poor choice and it turns out later that you need a > longer field, > >MySQL provides an ALTER TABLE statement.) > > > >Animal sex can be represented in a variety of ways, for example, "m" > >and "f", or perhaps "male" and "female". It's simplest to use the > >single characters "m" and "f". > > > >Query/mysql > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
