see silly stuff like that, my mind traps. Important stuff, like where
the bar is, my mind loses :)
stuff like that is what REFERENCE manuals are for... a place in which
to look up the answer to the "life's too short to remember" questions
geez, if anyone gave me a SQL test on an interview, I'd probably flunk.
I'm always looking up syntax.
- Tim Gorman <Tim_at_SageLogix.com> wrote:
> Life is too short to try to remember stuff like this...
>
> SQL> create table x (y number(9,2));
>
> Table created.
>
> SQL> insert into x values (999999999.99);
> insert into x values (999999999.99)
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01438: value larger than specified precision allows for
> this
> column
>
> SQL> insert into x values (9999999.99);
>
> 1 row created.
>
> So, that's 9 digits in total with 7 to the left and 2 to the right...
>
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>
>
> > Chris, I wish i could remember, wait
> >
> > var_name number(9,2) heck i can't remember if thats a total of 9
> digits
> > with 2 to the right, so is it 7.2 or is it 9.2
> >
> > damn.
> >
> > joe
> >
> >
> > Grabowy, Chris wrote:
> >
> > >Totally off Oracle topic.
> > >
> > >I am studying the mainframe layout specs for a flat file, and came
> > >across this "datatype", and I just want to confirm my
> interpretation.
> > >
> > >PIC 9(9)V99
> > >
> > >So that's 9 digits before the decimal point?
> > >
> > >And then two digits after the decimal point?
> > >
> > >And the actual data would have a decimal point?
> > >
> > >So in this case, for a total of 12 characters?
> > >
> > >123456789.99 ?
> > >
> > >TIA!!!
> > >
> > >
> >
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