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Re: Re: The case of outnumbered numerator

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Mark Murphy/STAR BASE Consulting
Inc. <mmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In either case he won't be able to maintain numerical sequence as you would expect since the sequence would be a, b, ..., z, aa, ab, ..., az, ..., za, zb, ..., zz, aaa, aab, ..., aaz, ..., but the sorted sequence would be a, aa, aaa, ..., unless you made leading blanks significant, and then you would always have an issue with how the keys were typed for searching.

He never said what the values looked like before reaching '100000' (in
his existing data), but my strong suspicion is that there have never
been blanks in the field. That is, the lowest value in that field is
probably either '000000' or '000001'. And regardless, any values above
'100000' surely have no blanks.

John Y.

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