Keeping dates as ints will be bad because you will always need to recreate the data as a date in order to match the date or date. This will negatively affect performance. In addition, to store dates as ints, you will need to write a trigger to ensure that no dates are added to the field. If you do not, you will have problems with the integrity of the date when invalid dates, such as 2302009, are indicated in your field.
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