I use strict tables. I’m now realising it did help when I migrated tables from one data type to an other, because I’d missed updating some of the code. I didn’

I use strict tables. I’m now realising it did help when I migrated tables from one data type to an other, because I’d missed updating some of the code. I didn’t realise because it was just what I’d expected, but without strict tables I’d have had to debug strange errors on retrieval rather than the type error on insertion I got.