I am putting together a SQL table which will hold a latitude and
longitude for each record. An example of a latitude is: 47 05 36.5
Which column type would best represent this and retain the spaces
between degrees, minutes, seconds? Text, varchar, char?
Thanks
Jeff je**********@wa .nacdnet.org 3  2598 
Don't use Text. Text is only useful for large texts and needs special
treatment.
Since the variability in value length will be small I would opt for the
char datatype. Other than that varchar is a fine choice as well. If you
choose char, make sure you don't overdimension it (you would waste
space).
Gert-Jan
Jeff Godfrey wrote:
I am putting together a SQL table which will hold a latitude and
longitude for each record. An example of a latitude is: 47 05 36.5
Which column type would best represent this and retain the spaces
between degrees, minutes, seconds? Text, varchar, char?
Thanks
Jeff
je**********@wa .nacdnet.org
Unless you are doing any computations on the values in this column, you can
use CHAR datatype. If each portion of this data has operational significance
or need any computations, you may be better off storing them as separate
numeric columns.
--
- Anith
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>> a latitude and longitude ... Which column type would best
represent this and retain the spaces between degrees, minutes,
seconds? Text, varchar, char? <<
If you have to compute with them, you might want to use FLOAT and
convert things to radians, and display them with a UDF.
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