It's meant to hold the source of the customer in terms of where they
heard about your service, advertisement, etc. There is a source
report that can produce a total for each source that uses that field.
If that doesn't matter right now you could use it to hold a temporary
value.
I think I would j
Paul,
What is the "source" column used for? Can I use it
to hold a temporary value?
Bill
mysql> describe customer;
+--+--+--+-+++
| Field| Type | Null | Key | Default| Extra
I don't think it would break anything.
Paul
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Bill Harris wrote:
> Paul,
>
> Our current "homegrown" Access-based system stores the account
> name as the account number (legacy from dial-up days)..
>
> I want to import the customers today, but wondered if I could a
Paul,
Our current "homegrown" Access-based system stores the account
name as the account number (legacy from dial-up days)..
I want to import the customers today, but wondered if I could add
a varchar column to store the login id into (just temporarily) until
I build the services up. I was tempt
