Column "Amount" value is out of range for data type "decimal"

  • Hi all, I have an interesting problem

    where one of the tables returns the message below when I run DBCC CHECKDB (MYDB) WITH DATA_PURITY:

    Msg 2570, Level 16, State 3, Line 1

    Page (1:848518), slot 18 in object ID 951674438, index ID 0, partition ID 72057594054508544, alloc unit ID 72057594068140032 (type "In-row data"). Column "Amount" value is out of range for data type "decimal". Update column to a legal value.

    There are 61857 inconsistency errors for the same column.

    I did checked several records on the page level and it seems that the Amount column has values -0.00 instead of 0.00.

    Also when I issue this command:

    SELECT DISTINCT amount, COUNT(*)

    FROM dbo.LinkShareTransactions_Temp

    GROUP BY amount

    ORDER BY amount

    These are the records returned in SSMS and the count = 61857 is exactly the same as when I run DBCC CHECKDB (MYDB).

    amountcount

    0.0061857

    0.0028

    The problem is when I copy and paste this value (0.00) from a row where count = 61857 in SSMS like:

    SELECT amount

    FROM dbo.LinkShareTransactions_Temp

    WHERE amount = 0.00

    there are no records returned.

    If I could get these detail records then I could issue an update statement and update them to 0.00.

    Is there a way to find what the actual value is is in that column?

    I found this article but it did not help.

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923247

    Thanks

  • What is the definition of the column?

  • The column definition:

    Column_nameType LengthPrecScaleNullable

    Amount decimal910 2 yes

  • trans54 (6/25/2009)


    The column definition:

    Column_nameType LengthPrecScaleNullable

    Amount decimal910 2 yes

    Okay, I must already be on vacation as my brain isn't getting it. Show me in T-SQL, ie decimal(10,9).

  • Lynn, isn't this Amount decimal(10,2)? And what do you mean to show you in sql?

  • You did just what I wanted. Like I said, my brain is already on vacation.

    Not sure where to go from here. Have you tried copying the data to a temporary table to see what happens with the data?

  • Yes, i tried to copy to the temp table and it's the same thing.

    Btw, i just fixed this using

    SELECT * FROM dbo.LinkShareTransactions_Temp

    WHERE ABS(Amount) = 0.00

    In this case it did returned 61885 detail records and since i know that there are 28 good records with (0.00) and 61857 records with bad data(0.00) the total is 61885 and i just updated all these records to 0.00 including 28 good ones.

    Rerun dbcc checkdb again there is no problem reported.

    Thanks for your time.

  • Well, i didn't really do that much, looks like you did all the work.

    Glad you got it fixed.

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