modeling year and month for summary data

From: Steiner, Randy <RASTEIN_at_NYCT.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 14:14:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D6B33.20031114141425@fatcity.com>

I have a table that will contain sales monthly summary. I am not sure which is the better way to handle the date of the data. I can create a year field and a month field or I can create a date field and force in the day e.g. 2003 November's data can be 01-Nov-03 .

Is there a censuses on which way to handle the date?

Thanks
Randy

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