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Number or Character for Year

From: <nboemio_at_my-dejanews.com>
Date: 1998/06/09
Message-ID: <6lj9b7$c7k$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 







When storing a year in a table, is there any preference between using
NUMBER(4) or VARCHAR2(4)?



And I mean as a general convention throughout the database and not for a
specific table.



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