RE: [PEAR] New MDB questions
| From: | Lukas Smith | Date: | Tue, 05 Aug 2003 11:05:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR] New MDB questions | ||
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> From: filip [mailto:filipnetzler@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 1:06 PM
> Qsts:
>
> _In general, what's the maximum number of characters a text field can
> take?
>
> If the text field can't accept 10 000 chars, should I use clob or
blob?
Difficult question. If you are taling about that kind of numbers you
should use clobs.
> _My ratings are quite high precision numbers (6 decimals). Should I
use
> float or a decimal-fixed decimal field?
You are aware of the basic differences between floats and decimals I
assume?
Generally I don't know a good answer to this one though.
Maybe Manuel Lemos from the Metabase project can give you an answer
here?
Regards,
Lukas