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rfb has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Whats the average pm's thoughts on storing phone numbers in a database, which column type is generally used? my boss, and most others I've talked to say I should use int, I'm thinking varchar, .. mainly because no numeric calculations will be done on a phone number.. hmm. -rfb