Re: Enum or Int

2004-07-30 Thread Keith Ivey
Michael Dykman wrote: I hope I'm not opening an old can of worms here, but there are some design trade-offs in this decision. ENUM has the strong advantage of being able to constrain the contents to the specific expected values. It is not possible for an application insert an illegal value wherea

Re: Enum or Int

2004-07-30 Thread Michael Dykman
I hope I'm not opening an old can of worms here, but there are some design trade-offs in this decision. ENUM has the strong advantage of being able to constrain the contents to the specific expected values. It is not possible for an application insert an illegal value whereas using INT one would

Re: Enum or Int

2004-07-30 Thread Cemal Dalar
There was a discussion about this topic at past. Check the previous posts.As a simple answer they are technically the same. Use what ever you want.. Best Regards, Cemal Dalar a.k.a Jimmy System Administrator & Web Developer http://www.dalar.net - Original Message - From: "Salzgeber Oliv