Re: Numeric Overflow

From: Marc Blum <marc_at_marcblum.de>
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2002 19:00:38 +0200
Message-ID: <u2vhfus775a2olrbd45fra7uu6gsrc7esl@4ax.com>

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 02:18:56 -0400, "Nelson Caraballo" <nospam_at_nospam.com> wrote:

>I once in a while get a numeric overflow error when I update tables using
>an external application. What exactly causes this error?
>
>Thanks
>

Hi Nelson,

just a little war story:

we had a similar problem with a Delphi app running on Intel P4. Trying to update some columns to Zero (0), the contents of the bind variable was something like 1.234567EE-306 . One of the GUI developers told me, it is a P4 problem with Zeros.

Marc Blum
mailto:marc_at_marcblum.de
http://www.marcblum.de Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 12:00:38 CDT