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Re: SQL Humor

From: AK <AK_TIREDOFSPAM_at_hotmail.COM>
Date: 19 Aug 2005 12:31:15 -0700
Message-ID: <1124479875.400032.57430@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 





>>

>>> In fact, those ugly length

>limited datatypes are just artifacts of the early SQL days,

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>on the contrary, it is a very powerful tool in enforsing data integrity






     Oh?  How?


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by declaring STATE_CODE CHAR(2) I don't let old style abbreviations
'Fla' and 'Ill' in



by declaring COUNTRY_CODE CHAR(3), etc.
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