Thanks to everybody for the help !!

Best regards, Nico

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Gütter" <news@...>
To: "Steffen Heil" <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Currency


> Hi Steffen,
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> > I use INTEGER, counted in Cent.
> > (Anyway, the main reason is to be able to multiply and add them without
> > having to think about rounding, (as I do this in Java and afaik Numeric
and
> > Double need to be taken as floats))
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> This is not true. NUMERIC is a fixed-decimal datatype and not
> a float.
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> Here is an exerpt from the Data Definition Guide:
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> - NUMERIC and DECIMAL datatypes that are declared without either
> precision or scale are stored as INTEGER.
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> - Defined with precision, with or without scale, they are stored
> as SMALLINT, INTEGER, DOUBLE PRECISION or 64-bit integer. Storage
> type depends on both the precision and the dialect of the database.
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> So one does not be afraid of NUMERIC as currency type.
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> Christian
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