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Storing a telephone number

476002Mar 9 2007 — edited Mar 9 2007
I was wondering what would be the best way to store a telephone number in a database and what datatype to use.

If i use a number datatype then i would lose the 0 (01204345...)
Would i use a varchar instead ?

Thanks
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