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lordzoster
Starting Member
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 Posted - 2008-12-19 : 07:10:20
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| Hallo i'm experiencing 8115 arythmetic overflow while altering a column type from decimal(5,0) to decimal(5,3).Records have no strange data.Any idea?Should I perform the conversion through an intermediate datatype?thanks in advance |
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2008-12-19 : 07:23:48
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5,3 means you have only 2 digits for the left side of the decimal point.Values coming from 5,0 can have up to 5 digits on the left side.Webfred
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2008-12-19 : 08:04:57
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You used decimal(8, 3)?
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lordzoster
Starting Member
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Posted - 2008-12-19 : 08:18:55
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| I solved this way:initial type smallintfinal type decimal(6,3)I was trying to impose a decimal(5,3) that could not work since some records had a 3-digit integer (that i didn't noticed, since there should have been only partial percentuals there, not 100%!!!). |
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8115 overflow converting increasing decimal scale