I don't have any strong feelings about it. Today was just the first
time I ever heard of a negative scale.
Chuck
On Feb 27, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Q wrote:
> Good point, but perhaps a negative scale should generate a warning
> in Entity Modeler rather than preventing it entirely.
>
> On 28/02/2007, at 10:07 AM, Chuck Hill wrote:
>
>> Maybe for EOModeler, but the SQL92 standard says,
>>
>>> An exact numeric value has a precision and a scale. The precision
>>> is a positive integer that determines the number of
>>> significant
>>> digits in a particular radix (binary or decimal). The
>>> scale is a
>>> non-negative integer. A scale of 0 indicates that the
>>> number is an
>>> integer. For a scale of S, the exact numeric value is
>>> the integer
>>> value of the significant digits multiplied by 10-S.
>
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