214-748-3647

The number is 214-748-3647, and as fate has it…somebody from Texas is very unlucky.

One of the sites I have been working on saves the phone numbers of condominiums to the database. Take a slight oversight on my part, mix in a improperly declared column type, and poof…you have phone numbers storing incorrectly.

What did I learn from this little fiasco? It seems that phone numbers should be stored as strings, and not integers. More importantly, I should never get a phone number that is 2³¹ -1.