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Storing customer IDs as number types is not just "not ideal", it is WRONG, TRWTF, and the source of all these issues.
I'd like to hate on Microsoft, but this is not their fault.
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Oh, and "I like to prefix" is also just wrong. Either you always pad to a specific width, or you never prefix.
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Sorry, I was a bit unspecific: Storing as floating point numbers (no matter the precision) is wrong. Proper integers are fine.