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		Grue3 on March 21, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: User-defined Order in SQL Why not strings? For two different strings A and B it's trivial to build one that is between them in alphabetic order.

adrianmonk on March 21, 2018 [–]

That is equivalent to the "Arbitrary Precision" section under Approach 2.

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