[Babase] lymphstates
Karl O. Pinc
kop at meme.com
Tue Jul 20 12:59:02 EDT 2010
On 07/20/2010 10:23:27 AM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> Karl
>
> I am getting ready to populate the lymphstates table and realized you
> have
> it set as Character(1). How much would it change about what you have
> already done if this were Numeric (1) instead? I had it set up as
> 1-4
> (or
> 0-3 if that is more logical)..
I can change it if you like but there's nothing wrong with
using the digits 1 to 4 in a character(1) column. The
only difference is that you can add numeric columns and
get averages and such. I'd only want it to change to
numeric if the column really is supposed to contain
some kind of metric.
Karl <kop at meme.com>
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