Although there are no definitive standards for common field length validations, we can come close using governmental standards, ISO recommendations, and database best practices based on maximum known values. Below are common database fields along with their maximum recommended allowable length and data type.
Month: October 2016
Scientists warn Earth faces global mass extinction of wildlife – here’s a mind-boggling list of extinct animals that illustrates the seriousness of climate change.
Conservationists issued a chilling warning this week telling New Scientists that global wildlife populations are set to have fallen by more than two thirds of 1970 levels by 2020 – and there is no sign that declining wildlife numbers will slow down in our lifetime. To understand the impact, check this list of recently extinct…
Residents fear the world is ending when hellish 140-degree heat burst descends on Kopperl, Texas (1960)
Missing woman accidentally joins search party looking for – herself
Bizarre Kayla Berg missing-teen case takes strange turn after kidnapping video discovered on YouTube
Sawney Bean and his 48-member backwoods cannibalistic clan terrorize 14th century Scotland from their horror-filled cave.
Over the years, Sawney’s family grew. Together, he and his wife produced 8 sons, 6 daughters, 18 grandsons, and 14 granddaughters. Most were born of incest. The family shared Sawney’s aversion to manual labor. To meet their needs, they hid along the roads at night and ambushed travelers robbing them of their possessions – and…
Amazing park benches turn mundane seats into stunning works of art.
There are literally millions of park benches across the world and all of them are fairly standard structures – plain, blocked supports with a horizontal surface to sit on. But some cities have thought out of the box and turned their park benches into beautiful, sometimes stunning, works of art. Check out the collection of…
An eerie leering skull face formed in Hurricane Matthew radar image and spooked the Internet.
As Hurricane Matthew approached Florida’s east coast on October 4, 2016, a meteorologist from The Weather Channel noted a particularly disturbing pattern in the radar image. At first, viewers thought the image was fake but news outlets verified that the image is indeed legit. In the radar shot above, you can see a clearly defined…