Gianluca Sartori (2/28/2012)
ram_kamboz2k7 (2/28/2012)
if bigint is an issue, can nvarchar be used for the telephone number? Thanks
varchar would be a better choice. I highly doubt you will ever need to store unicode characters in telephone numbers.
we use varchars here;
we get a lot of data like "1-888-555-1212 ext 223"; our users prefer to have a single field where they can include the extension instead of a separate optional field.
Lowell
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