Re: Use long,int,double for NUMBER??

From: Gert Rijs <gem_at_wirehub.nl>
Date: 1997/05/22
Message-ID: <01bc66db$1bf1be70$0100007f@gertrijs>#1/1

depends on scale & precision. your best bet is to bind to a string (i believe the dsize tells you the length to allocate). Gert

> I have a odesc() call in my program to find information about a column.
> However, if I am returned with a internal type of NUMBER, what do I
> allocate? An int, long, or double. What is everyone else doing when
> converting a internal NUMBER datatype to an external type?
>
Received on Thu May 22 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT

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