> From: "Helen Borrie"
> At 11:25 AM 6/08/2003 -0400, Ann wrote:
> >In Firebird numeric and decimal map into exactly the same types. In the
> >SQL-92 standard:

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>
> And that's it, and only it? Nothing about lower-scaled values being stored
> differently according to whether they are declared numeric or decimal ???

Why not ? SQL standard does not care about implementation details.

Ivan