In the last episode (Jul 18), shantanu oak said: > I am getting two different results for the same set of commands on > two different versions of MySQL. Can anyone explain what the issue > is? > > CREATE TABLE `testdecimal` ( > `rate` decimal(7,4) NOT NULL default '0.0000' > ) ENGINE=MyISAM; > > INSERT INTO testdecimal SET rate=1468; > > select * from testdecimal; > _____ > > version 4.1.12 > 1468.0000 > > version 5.0 > 999.9999
I think the DECIMAL type was changed to be more standard-compliant, and (7,4) now means "7 total digits, 4 of them to the right of the decimal point". Your number doesn't fit, so the maximum value was inserted instead. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/numeric-types.html -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
