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What Kind Of Variable

fyrestorm	10 Oct, 2002 - 01:37 PM Post #1
D.I.C Lover Joined: 4 Apr, 2002 Posts: 3,103 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 228 My Contributions	i have to put a price as a field in a mysql database, and i need it to be in the form #.## what would i use as the field type, i tried floating but it got rid of my last zero, so i couldn't have 1.50 help.
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skyhawk133	RE: What Kind Of Variable 10 Oct, 2002 - 01:55 PM Post #2
Head DIC Head Joined: 17 Mar, 2001 Posts: 15,277 Thanked: 61 times Dream Kudos: 1650 Expert In: Web Development My Contributions	I just use text, cause then you can put 9.99 or 9.90 or whatever... if you want to use a number field, use a small_int (I think that's big enough) and then when you pring out the value, use a sprintf function (Again, I think) to format the result properly.
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fyrestorm	RE: What Kind Of Variable 10 Oct, 2002 - 02:02 PM Post #3
D.I.C Lover Joined: 4 Apr, 2002 Posts: 3,103 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 228 My Contributions	i finally did just turn to using text, a little test and i saw that it worked, thanks for that info though...
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Amadeus	RE: What Kind Of Variable 11 Oct, 2002 - 03:02 PM Post #4
g++ -o drink whiskey.cpp Joined: 12 Jul, 2002 Posts: 12,355 Thanked: 51 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	I'm fairly new to mysql. Is there no "money" type,as there is in SQL Server? TIA for the info
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capty99	RE: What Kind Of Variable 11 Oct, 2002 - 03:06 PM Post #5
the real kya Joined: 26 Apr, 2001 Posts: 9,256 Thanked: 16 times Dream Kudos: 550 My Contributions	not that i recall.
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Amadeus	RE: What Kind Of Variable 11 Oct, 2002 - 03:32 PM Post #6
g++ -o drink whiskey.cpp Joined: 12 Jul, 2002 Posts: 12,355 Thanked: 51 times Dream Kudos: 25 My Contributions	http://www.sqlconverter.com/excel/docs/mys...l-datatypes.htm You were right. Thanks.
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