See, now this is a useful change.

John

I understand it is designed to cover all the data types, which is sometimes misleading, since values like: 1e2 don't translate into all the datatypes, but I dare say...

As exciting as it may seem to "clean up" the functions, the suggestion is actually quite bad.

If you want new behavior, the new behavior should be behind a flag, which...

A few that come to mind:

1) Other books from various authors

2) video training

3) peers

4) online forums

5) self study/your own notes/your own work

6) sample code

7) books on other database systems (...