RE: How to store Value greater than 38 digits ?? Help !!

Shradha,

Hopefully you are computing my next pay raise!

If you really need that large of a number, you may be stuck putting it into Varchar2 fields and doing all the ugly conversions to make the math work.

Or you could use what Dennis Williams said about scale by dividing all your numbers by a hundred, thousand, or what ever it takes and storing them with a decimal.

Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arul.kumar_at_bt.com [SMTP:arul.kumar_at_bt.com]
>
> Hi DBAs,
>
> One of my projects is facing a problem, they are using a numeric datatype
> for a column, in the process part the calulation is leading to a number
> larger than 38 digits.
>
> Therefore they are not getting a result ie procedure is not returning
> anything.
>
> If you have come across such a thing ?...Inputs are welcome
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Shradha

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