jfogel (7/15/2013)
Of course a postal code field should be nvarchar(4000)! You never know what the future holds.
BWAAA-HAAAA!!!! That and an "IsActive" column were the examples I used put put a little heat under their kettles. I couldn't believe it when the Lead Developer recited Knuth's famous saying to explain why it was done and he did it with a perfectly serious face on. As a bit of a side bar, this is the guy that introduced himself to me as "I'm the Jeff Moden of the GUI world." My comment after his Knuth explanation was "you can't be... I'm not [font="Arial Black"]that [/font]bad". :-P:-P:-P
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.