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Numeric(2,0) vs INT
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Microsoft SQL Server
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Database design
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Thread ID:
01652230
Message ID:
01652235
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>>Hi,
>>
>>I need to add a few fields to a SQL Server table:
>>MONTH_NO - Month number
>>MONTH_FR - Month from
>>MONTH_TO - Month to
>>In the VFP table, corresponding to this SQL Server table, the types of these fields are NUMERIC(2,0)
>>
>>Does it matter if in SQL Server I make the type of these field NUMERIC(2,0) vs INT?
>>
>>TIA
>
>Use TinyInt for this.
>
>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/data-types/int-bigint-smallint-and-tinyint-transact-sql

What advantage (other than smaller storage) the tinyint would have vs. NUMERIC(2,0)?
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