I’ve got two words to describe my thoughts on being lazy with data types …. JUST DON’T! Image may be NSFW.
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There’s been many blog posts, videos, AskTOM questions etc over the years with numerous examples of how the optimizer gets confused, how the SQL engine gets confused…and even how developers will ultimately get confused if you do not spend that little tiny bit of extra effort in ensuring data type consistency.
