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problem with decimal field being rounded 1

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luciddream

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Nov 8, 2000
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Hi,

I'm having a very frustrating problem. I am trying to update a decimal field, scale 9, precision 18 , with an update statement. something along the lines of:

update table set field = 4.5 where id = 12

anyways, the decimal is being rounded, for some ungodly reason. I really don't think it's practical for me to write a stored procedure just to get this field to update with the correct value. If anyone has has a similar problem, or knows a solutions, please, this is very frusttrating.

Thanks,
luciddream

aschuster@sftsolutions.com
 
It works on my system. The scale is definitely 9? It defaults to (18,0) when you create a decimal column. That would force it to round the 4.5.
-Karl

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Thank you, I'm an idiot, apparently. I don't know why i assumed the scale was 9, i probably should have checked and saved myself a couple hours of banging my head on the desk.

or i guess it might be the head banging that made me assume..

anyways.. thanks

aschuster@sftsolutions.com
 
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