As general roule, you should always use "currency" type since they are stor=
ed as scaled integer, so without rounding problems.
This is a complicate subject, since Delphi and Interbase has internal diffe=
rences that sometime, expecially at the extreme of the range, could cause so=
me accuracy problems, so IBO code "tried to to it's best" to make things go =
smmotly, and sometime does some "strange" conversions (to/from string...). S=
o watching at IBO internal code you could get a little confused, but I thing=
that with "AsCurrency" you will have the best monetary accurancy that Delph=
i/Interbase can give you.
On www.ibobjects,com there is a Tech Sheet "Working with Currency and Scale=
d Numeric Data Types" that could help you.
regards
Marco Menardi

--- In IBObjects@y..., "Martin D. Berezaga" <mdberezaga@y...> wrote:
> I'm using Numeric(18,2) to Monetary fields. To set/get these values in
> code, what's the best alternative to avoid rounding problems?
>
> IB_Query.FieldByName('MonetaryField').AsCurrency or
> IB_Query.FieldByName('MonetaryField').AsExtended ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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