Re: Storing Negative Numbers in Oracle?

Chris: Thanks! You're a life saver! It works great.

--Sussette

"Christopher M. Day" wrote:

> Sussette,
>
> I've just tried this and I get back the correct result, but then I'm
> using SQL*Navigator, and I think you are using SQL*Plus. I would
> change your default numwidth value from 9 to 20.
>
> SQL>show numwidth
> numwidth 9
> SQL>set numwidth 20
> numwidth 20
>
> You should get the correct result back now ;)
>
> Chris.
>
> Sussette Blasa wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I hope someone could help me. I've been trying to figure out how to
> > store this number "-118.245169" in a field called "LATITUDE". When
> > creating the table, I created the LATITUDE field by using the "number"
> > datatype like this: LATITUDE NUMBER(20,9), but it truncates, or actually
> > rounds off the number to: -118.2452 . I want to use this value in a
> > calculation, but I would like to store it without rounding it off. I'm
> > assuming that the negative number is causing it to round off.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated...
> >
> > --Sussette
Received on Tue Feb 23 1999 - 15:38:49 CST