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Re: Automated rounding ???

From: Andreas Koch <akoch_at_rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:03:51 +0200
Message-ID: <3B3B6377.2AAFE1CA@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de>

TurkBear schrieb:
>
> Perhaps the older DB dump was when the column was defined as number(8,2)[ or
> some other value] - In other words with a precision parameter - without one, I
> believe Oracle assumes Integer and will round ( you can 'tell' it to Trunc, but
> rounding is the default)

As far as i remember it was defined as "Number", and surely the same type in both (as we imported the dump WITH the data).

If i try "Number", it seems to acceppt comma values. Is there some oracle setup deciding if "Number" is int or float?

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                                              Andreas
Seeing Dune worms, i don't want to see the Dune BIRDS...
Received on Thu Jun 28 2001 - 12:03:51 CDT

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