Hello Helen,

Somehow I do not get the messages from the "ib-support" directly. I just
recognized as I was in "http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ib-support" that you
already responded to my question. Thanks for that.

I have the following query:

select cast (Aribbon_speed_m_min as numeric(9,2))as Aribbon_speed_m_min,
Anet_width_inch,
Aribbon_text,
Astart_of_ribbon,
Aend_of_ribbon,
Astart_of_ribbon_txt,
Aend_of_ribbon_txt,
Aperformance,
cast (Asquare_meters_jobs as numeric (15,2)) as Asquare_meters_jobs,
cast (Asquare_meters_float as numeric (15,2)) as Asquare_meters_float,
cast (Asquare_foot_jobs as numeric (15,2)) as Asquare_foot_jobs,
cast (Asquare_foot_float as numeric (15,2)) as Asquare_foot_float,
cast (Ayield as numeric (9,2)) as Ayield,
cast (Aribbon_weight_in_tons as numeric (15,2)) as Aribbon_weight_in_tons,
cast (Aribbon_weight_in_sh_tons as numeric (15,2)) as
Aribbon_weight_in_sh_tons,
Atime4ribbon,
Apercent_of_float_time,
Apackers
from select_ribbon_values
order by Anet_width_inch DESCENDING

Rainer