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Subj:   Re: Impact of changing MaxDecimal from 15 to 18
 
From:   Geoffrey Rommel

  The Microsoft ODBC Programmer's Reference, Appendix D (Data Types) defines data type SQL_DECIMAL as DECIMAL(p,s) with 1<=p<=15 and 0<=s<=p.  


  DECIMAL(15) probably seemed plenty large when the standard was written; brings to mind the famous comment about 640K being all the memory you'll ever need...  



Right you are, Dave. IBM DB2/UDB for Unix allows decimal columns of up to 31 digits, so I think that customers will soon expect other vendors to follow suit.



     
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