andrew_s_vaz wrote:

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> Interesting. This app was ported from Paradox, to DbIsam and now to
> FB. Only in FB it gave me this error. I think that the others were
> casting the results automatically. Even in Cobol back in the 80's I
> was used to do this kind of stuff and get away with it. Go figure...

Ah! None of the other environments had the benefit of the wisdom of the
SQL standard. Our rules on numeric overflow come from there.


Regards,


Ann