<blyons3_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> Is there any convention for representing money with an Oracle Database?
> I'll throw out NUMBER(4, 19) as an ice breaker to get the conversation
> started.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
> blyons3_at_yahoo.com
>
Depends upon the units. If you are dealing with Yen then the precision
would be 0. If you are dealing with US Dollars then 2 digits of precision.
I am assuming that you can't have fractional units. (eg fractions of a
penny, fractions of a yen.) It really depends upon your requirements.
Jim
Received on Fri Jul 21 2006 - 21:36:33 CDT
