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Subj:   Re: 2616: Numeric overflow occurred during computation.
 
From:   Dieter Noeth

frank.c.martinez wrote:

  haven't seen the 13 presentation (I wasn't at Partners last year). Cool, very cool. So is part of the optimization to make the resulting type in COUNT a DECIMAL(18) or BIGINT? (hah, BIGINT is so funny. I think of a large, economy size palooka from some gangster movie, "BigInt, just ice the guy.", "Sure, boss, whatever ya say!", "No, BigInt, not with a block of ice!" "Sorry, boss.", "Blam!" "BigInt, he was already dead.", "Oh. Sorry.").  


Hi Frank, if you run a session in ANSI mode, then the resulting datatype is a decimal(18) or (38). I like the remark in the manuals:

"ANSI mode uses DECIMAL because tables frequently have a cardinality exceeding the range of INTEGER. Teradata mode uses INTEGER to avoid regression problems."

So it's "backward compatibility", they'll probably never change it.


Dieter



     
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