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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 08:54:55 -0500
From: Paul DuBois <paul@stripped>
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At 20:47 -0500 9/18/02, William Martell wrote:
>Hello.
>
>Can anyone tell me whether we can represent fractions in MySQL 4.0. I have
>data representing different lengths of objects measured in inches. Can I
>load this data as is into a field in MySQL or do I have to convert it first
>into an floating point interger or decimal value???
You could store them as strings, but you'd have to interpret them on
the client side, most likely.
In which case you might as well store them as reals, with char
substitution (interpret). As reals, later when the inevitable desire
occurs to add different lengths, it will be simple.
