Tony Papadimitriou wrote: > I really don't know what the standard says, but here are two different > opinions in implementation. > > MySQL example:
You know that the "SQL" in "MySQL" is actually the abbreviation of "something quite loose"? ;-) Anyway, it appears even MySQL conforms to SQL-92 subclause 6.12: | 1) If the data type of both operands of a dyadic arithmetic opera- | tor is exact numeric, then the data type of the result is exact | numeric, with precision and scale determined as follows: | [...] | d) The precision and scale of the result of division is | implementation-defined. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
