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blyons3_at_gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
i think you mean (19,4).
but as Jim wrote, it depends what do you want to do with these numbers. calculating / converting needs more decimal places (AFAIK 4) than just storing (0-3).
regards,
-ap
Received on Sat Jul 22 2006 - 04:53:43 CDT