Christof,

>Yes, but I doubt that it makes sense in an application, because using native integers is faster than using strings.
Yes.

This far, I was never forced into weighing between Int and BINTOC() for smaller CDXs. However, BINTOC() was an inprovement and necessity when combined with other string-fields in the table. Anyway, this is out of the main topic.

Thanks!


>Hi Kenneth,
>
>>Perhaps if you know you aren't in for big integers, you can consider BINTOC(...,2)
>
>Yes, but I doubt that it makes sense in an application, because using native integers is faster than using strings.
>
>Christof