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Re: Best Number Representation for Money

From: Andreas Piesk <a.piesk_at_gmx.net>
Date: 22 Jul 2006 02:53:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1153562023.736705.310730@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com>

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

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