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Data type for a column with a decimal

  • June 3, 2010 at 1:54 pm

    #236066

    I have a small table I am creating. I have a column that will hold a number (4.5). It will not be used to calculate anything. It is a versioning number. Is nchar or nvarchar the correct datatype to use here??? thank you in advance, as always!! :w00t:

    Thank you!!,

    Angelindiego

  • June 3, 2010 at 2:06 pm

    #1176170

    I still would use NUMERIC(?,1).

    Assume two version numbers: 10.1 and 4.1.

    Try to select the max. version number...

    DECLARE @tbl TABLE

    (

    num NUMERIC(4,1),

    stri VARCHAR(4)

    )

    INSERT INTO @tbl

    SELECT 4.1, '4.1' UNION ALL

    SELECT 10.1,'10.1'

    SELECT MAX(num) FROM @tbl

    SELECT MAX(stri) FROM @tbl


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  • June 3, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    #1176172

    aaahhh.....good point!! Thank you!!! Numeric it is!!

    Thank you!!,

    Angelindiego

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