RE: The Number that shouldn't be a number

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January 31, 2015 at 12:27 am

I remember the pain of working with a system where a developer had chosen the TIME data type to store the number of hours worked in a day. Anyone want to figure out how you add two TIME columns together? I'll wait…

Wwwhhhuuuuttttt???? You don't believe in picking your data-types for purposes of final formatting? I'm shocked! :-P:-D:-P:-D:-P:-D And "everybody" knows that it's best to store currency amounts as NVARCHAR(255), right? :laugh:

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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