Re: [Wonder-disc] "amount" prototype

[Mike S. <ms...@md...>]

Sounds like currencyAmount DECIMAL(x,4) seems to meet everyone's  
needs, so I'll add that momentarily ...

ms

On Feb 20, 2007, at 4:39 AM, Georg Tuparev wrote:

> Mike,
>
> After working on banking projects for few years, I've learned (the  
> hard way) that most transactions are DECIMAL(xx,3). I've seen also  
> transaction systems that work with DECIMAL(xx,5)... butt 3 will  
> probably cover 99% of the cases...
>
> gt
>
>
> On Feb 20, 2007, at 2:47 AM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>
>> I'm voting for adding a "currencyAmount" prototype that is valueType
>> = B, DECIMAL(38,2), btw.  Speak now (or soon) or forever hold your
>> peace.  Changing the definition seems a little scary for everyone.
>> However, FrontBase is just wrong (compared to the others), so I
>> believe FrontBase's "amount" definition should change to value type
>> "d" to match everyone else.
>>
>> ms
>
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