http://codespatter.com/2008/07/24/careful-with-numeric-data-types-in-mysql/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:05:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://codespatter.com/2008/07/24/careful-with-numeric-data-types-in-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-13323 Tim Rosenblatt Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:57:16 +0000 http://codespatter.com/?p=57#comment-13323 Any ideas as to why they did that? It seems like an awkward syntax; where we usually input a storage size, they went with a display size value. Something like this would be more useful on a LONGTEXT field. Any ideas as to why they did that? It seems like an awkward syntax; where we usually input a storage size, they went with a display size value. Something like this would be more useful on a LONGTEXT field.

]]> http://codespatter.com/2008/07/24/careful-with-numeric-data-types-in-mysql/comment-page-1/#comment-11537 Tim Rosenblatt Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:57:16 +0000 http://codespatter.com/?p=57#comment-11537 Any ideas as to why they did that? It seems like an awkward syntax; where we usually input a storage size, they went with a display size value. Something like this would be more useful on a LONGTEXT field. Any ideas as to why they did that? It seems like an awkward syntax; where we usually input a storage size, they went with a display size value. Something like this would be more useful on a LONGTEXT field.

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