What’s the best way to store things like “7 years 4 months” (for example, years of experience) in the database. Float?
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What’s the best way to store things like “7 years 4 months” (for example, years of experience) in the database. Float?
Store a BIGINT number of seconds or ticks.
In your specific example (years of experience), it would be better to store the start date and calculate the amount of time when you read the database.