store a numeric dollar value inside of a datetime type
Yes. You read that right.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a spec.
I got a spec today that requires me to:
store a numeric dollar value inside of a datetime type
Yes. You read that right.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a spec.
store a numeric dollar value inside of a datetime type
Yes. You read that right.
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a spec.
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johnhattan
Not only that, but the schedule requires your code to be complete and debugged by $1.85
February 22, 2006 09:18 AM
the table it goes into has 528 columns.
All of the numeric columns have been taken up already, and we didn't want to add yet another column. So this is their solution.
*grumble*
All of the numeric columns have been taken up already, and we didn't want to add yet another column. So this is their solution.
*grumble*
February 22, 2006 10:05 AM
Hehe, simple enough to do though. Assuming you're using a decimal type, you would just take the address (mmm, unsafe code), dereference it into a long, and stick it into a DateTime (ignoring the fact that decimal types are 128bit) [grin]
February 22, 2006 12:04 PM
Quote:
Not only that, but the schedule requires your code to be complete and debugged by $1.85
That was a real LOL... I had to share with the co-workers. =D
February 22, 2006 03:39 PM
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