I am creating a new table from the fields of an existing table.
create table newtable select a+b+c col1 from oldtable
I don't want to create newtable ahead of time because it will have around
200 fields in it and it gets clobbered every time I run the query.
The problem with the create table example above, the col1 ends up being
Double and I'd like it as Float because I don't need that much precision in
newtable. Also I want Float because it takes a Select statement 1.05
seconds to return 1 row from newtable when the table has only 1 row. I
figure changing the 60 or 70 Double columns to Float should speed things up
some.
Cast doesn't work with Float. Is there a way to force the calculations to
use Float instead of Double? TIA
Mike
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