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  3. December 2007

Re: To Date or Not to Date... that is the question

Well, this is why I am asking, I am trying to figure out "best practices"
for this. I am writing an application from scratch, so I have the
opportunity to write it using best practices.

On Dec 13, 2007 2:06 PM, Walden H. Leverich <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

PS. My preference is (obviously) to use the date type. Why? Because
you're storing a date! You don't use a char field to store a number, do
you?



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