Since MySQL doesn't seem to have any 'boolean' data type, which data type do you 'abuse' for storing true/false information in MySQL?
Especially in the context of writing and reading from/to a PHP script.
Over time I have used and seen several…
I want to store many records in a MySQL database. All of them contains money values. But I don't know how many digits will be inserted for each one.
Which data type do I have to use for this purpose?
VARCHAR or INT (or other numeric data types)?
I have variable length character data and want to store in SQL Server (2005) database. I want to learn some best practices about how to choose TEXT SQL type or choose VARCHAR SQL type, pros and cons in performance/footprint/function.
I knew boolean in mysql as tinyint (1).
Today I see a table with defined an integer like tinyint(2), and also others like int(4), int(6) ...
What does the size means in field of type integer and tinyint ?
I am using SQL Server 2005. I have a table with a text column and I have many rows in the table where the value of this column is not null, but it is empty. Trying to compare against '' yields this response:
The data types text and varchar are…
Yesterday I wanted to add a boolean field to an Oracle table. However, there isn't actually a boolean data type in Oracle. Does anyone here know the best way to simulate a boolean? Googling the subject discovered several approaches
Use an…
I am new to DynamoDB. I wish to create a table which using DeviceID as the hash key, Timestamp as my range key and some data.
{ DeviceID: 123, Timestamp: "2016-11-11T17:21:07.5272333Z", X: 12, Y: 35 }
In SQL, we can use datetime type for Timestamp,…