Hi All,

Yesterday I posted a OT node to SoPW. This was the wrong
place to post such a node so it was rightfully deleted.
But I want to get everyones' opinnion about the wisdom
of declaring a Oracle column to represent SSN as varchar2(9).

Example:
create table OMG_BTW (
...
SSN varchar2(9),
...
);

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What happens if there is ever more that 999,999,999 people
with SSNs?

Would it be better to create the table like so ...
create table OMG_BTW (
...
SSN NUMBER,
...
);

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... or am just a worry wort that hasn't forgotten the nightmare
of Y2K bugs. I guess it is important to know the current
population of the US which is 287,773,061
with the world population of 6,243,392,791 at the time of
this posting.
What I don't know is the rate at which the population is growing?
And what is better varchar2(9) or number?

Monks! Your country needs you please help!

In reply to SSN's possible new Y2K problem? by Anonymous Monk

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