Re: Entity Modeler hates me.

From: Chuck Hill (chil..lobal-village.net)
Date: Tue Feb 27 2007 - 20:35:52 EST

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    On Feb 27, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Sacha Michel Mallais wrote:

    > On Feb 27, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
    >
    >> I don't have any strong feelings about it. Today was just the
    >> first time I ever heard of a negative scale.
    >
    > As of Oracle 9i, the scale for the numeric type s can range from
    > -84 to 127.

    Oh, and that makes me feel so much better! whOracle, leading the
    standards way one deviation at a time.

    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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    >>>
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    >>>
    >>>
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