On 16 Jul 2003 at 16:02, John Hicks wrote: > Thanks for the reply, Rudy. > > My source for the statement that decimal values are stored > as strings is: > http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Numeric_types.html :
DECIMAL values may very well be stored as strings, but presumably you're going to do some calculations on them as well at some point, and it's likely that not all those calculations are going to occur in MySQL (even assuming MySQL handles DECIMAL calculations exactly). You may have an easier time in your applications doing the calculations on integers. -- Keith C. Ivey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tobacco Documents Online http://tobaccodocuments.org -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
