see silly stuff like that, my mind traps. Important stuff, like where
the bar is, my mind loses :)
stuff like that is what REFERENCE manuals are for... a place in which
to look up the answer to the "life's too short to remember" questions
geez, if anyone gave me a SQL test on an interview, I'd probably flunk.
I'm always looking up syntax.
Tim Gorman wrote:
Life is too short to try to remember stuff like this...
SQL> create table x (y number(9,2));
Table created.
SQL> insert into x values (999999999.99);
insert into x values (999999999.99)
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01438: value larger than specified precision allows for
this
column
SQL> insert into x values (9999999.99);
1 row created.
So, that's 9 digits in total with 7 to the left and 2 to the right...
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Chris, I wish i could remember, wait
var_name number(9,2) heck i can't remember if thats a total of 9 digits
with 2 to the right, so is it 7.2 or is it 9.2
damn.
joe
Grabowy, Chris wrote:
Totally off Oracle topic.
I am studying the mainframe layout specs for a flat file, and came
across this "datatype", and I just want to confirm my
interpretation.
So that's 9 digits before the decimal point?
And then two digits after the decimal point?
And the actual data would have a decimal point?
So in this case, for a total of 12 characters?
123456789.99 ?
TIA!!!
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