Subject Re: [ib-support] FB and Delphi dbExpress.
Author Martijn Tonies
Hi Andrew,

I believe that all NUMERIC stuff should be mapped to TFMTBCDField
as from Delphi 7 and higher.

As for Delphi 6, depending on the precision, it will be TFMT instead of
TBCD. I believe >15 will be mapped to TFMTBCDField.


With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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> Hello, IB support
>
> Could anyone help with this: Which Firebird datatype should be chosen
> for enforcing the dbExpress to create according TBCDField instead of
> TFMTBCDField ? Now I have NUMERIC(18,4) mapped as TFMTBCDField (using
> dialect 3). What is wrong? Excuse me for possible off-topic.
>
> Thanks ahead.