Considering I know the range of a field (0 – 10) and I only need to keep precision to one decimal place 00.0, what is the best field type for this column?
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Considering I know the range of a field (0 – 10) and I only need to keep precision to one decimal place 00.0, what is the best field type for this column?
The data type you want is
DECIMAL(3, 1). Per the documentation, this will store any value from-99.9to99.9.