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I'm currently working on a new (for me) legacy database that store percentile numbers in a varchar column . Seriously who the fuck had the that brilliant idea!!!

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    fiftyninepercent
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    Wait until you find decimal values stored as varchar in a fairly new system 😫
    For added fun, the values are padded to length 32 with #
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    if it's php, then most likely to avoid the semi random type casting that makes precision impossible
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