Instead of tracking task priority with words like “high”, “low”, etc, task priorities should be tracked with positive integers. Why? Simplicity and performance. It is much easier for a database to sort numbers than to convert words to numbers and then sort. It also simplifies the “vocabulary”, meaning the specific word used is not relevant - only the magnitude of number.
Instead of tracking task priority with words like “high”, “low”, etc, task priorities should be tracked with positive integers. Why? Simplicity and performance. It is much easier for a database to sort numbers than to convert words to numbers and then sort. It also simplifies the “vocabulary”, meaning the specific word used is not relevant - only the magnitude of number.