Rather use Gender than Sex? Regards, Joseph
>-----Original Message----- >From: Kevin Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:01 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Is it my English or does this sound bad? > > >I guess it depends on if you have a dirty mind, or, you just >ignore it and understand the point of the example. ;) lol > >But yeah, could have been worded slightly different. > >Kevin > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Defryn, Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:58 AM >Subject: Is it my English or does this sound bad? > > > > >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 ? :-) > > > >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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
