Re: Select double value

2004-06-07 Thread Michael Stassen
Paul McNeil wrote: Thank you very much for the response. According to MySQL Control Center the MySQL DB I am connecting to is version 4.0.17. Possibly that is the problem. You'll get quicker (and, on average, better) responses if you keep the thread on the list. I have mysql 4.0.17 running on a

Re: Select double value

2004-06-07 Thread Michael Stassen
Paul McNeil wrote: Good morning to all. I have a problem with a workaround but I wanted to know if others have run into this. Are you sure the problem is with mysql? If so, which version do you have? I have 4.0.20, and I get different (expected) results. Table DATA Column strength [double] CREAT

RE: Select double value

2004-06-07 Thread Victor Pendleton
Are you catching the error? Are you sure the value returned is what you are expecting? -Original Message- From: Dean Urmson To: 'Paul McNeil'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6/7/04 8:16 AM Subject: RE: Select double value >> The problem is that in my java.sql.ResultSet.get

RE: Select double value

2004-06-07 Thread Dean Urmson
>> The problem is that in my java.sql.ResultSet.getDouble("strength") >> a zero amount throws a number format exception. Hi Paul, Not a Java user so I haven't tested this. You could try... SELECT abs( strength ) FROM data ; It 'might' stop the exception! Cheers Dean -- MySQL General Maili

Select double value

2004-06-07 Thread Paul McNeil
Good morning to all. I have a problem with a workaround but I wanted to know if others have run into this. Table DATA Column strength [double] When I select strength from DATA and the result is a non zero amount it returns correctly 3.256498 however if it is a 0 amount I get 0. The p