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<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma">Fellow IT teachers.</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Do we declare the data type for Postcode as number or text? In database, if we apply a validation rule for a Victorian postcode as being between 3000 and 3999, then we declare it as a number. However going over one of the
past exam multiple choice questions, the answer they wanted for the data type for Postcode was text. Which answer are the examiners looking for?</font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma">Athena</font></div>
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