[thelist] MS SQL datatype question

Brian Cummiskey Brian at hondaswap.com
Wed May 23 16:09:27 CDT 2007


Casey Crookston wrote:
> If I want to store the value of 1.5, what is the best datatype to use?  This is not currency, it's just 1 ½.  I would have thought it would be "decimal" but that seems to round up.
Float seems to work the best from my experience.

If you have rounding issues, try this:

|SELECT
   cast(FIELD as varchar) AS 'myField'|




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