Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:59:33 02/11/03
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On February 11, 2003 at 08:26:26, John Wentworth2 wrote: >On February 11, 2003 at 04:28:09, Angrim wrote: > >> This format certainly provides a lot of data. Much of this data is >>unlikely to be useful for a specific program, but having all of it >>means that multiple programs which use different criteria for picking >>book moves could share a book db. >> I have some doubts about the usefulness of storing an expected move, >>since the first move out of book is a surprise move almost by definition. >>If you know what they will play, and the current position is at >>all common, you should already have the counter to their next >>move in book. >> Not being an SQL expert, I do have one other concern. Can an SQL field >>of type "char" store all values from 0 to 255? That ability is needed >>if you are storing a 64 bit hash into an 8 char field. > >Could you not use SQLVariant instead of char? It's not an ANSI/ISO defined type, and most database systems do not support it. Same for varbinary.
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