Re: [Webware-discuss] MiddleKit and money data type

[Tripp L. <tl...@pe...>]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Terrel Shumway wrote:

> I am coming from working on a financial application that rolled its own
> currency manager.  Based solely on the amount of code involved, I have
> my doubts about DBMS authors (who have a lot of other things to worry
> about) getting it right.  I would test it very thoroughly before relying
> on it. 

Though it pains me to say this, I would be inclined to trust the money
types in MS SQL Server, Sybase, Oracle, and -maybe- Informix, but not in
any of the open-source DBs, and probably not in other "lesser" proprietary
DBs. The simple reason is economic: all of the above-mentioned proprietary
DBs have been being used for a decade or more each in high-volume
financial transactions, and so have been put through the ringer.

I would, however, expect the money types in the open source DBs to get
better as time progresses, now that they have more visibility and support.

But that's all opinion :)

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