An attempt to reconcile the numerous approaches taken to implementing Numeric (and Decimal) fields. While generally applicable, the initial driver for this work is the Kafka ecosystem and Kafka ...

I'm working on a project building a web site that helps craftsmen (bicycle framebuilders) manage their operations. Most bicycle framebuilders give their frames a serial number, which can be ...

When selecting the data, I was expecting the zero values to be returned as 0.00 or 0, but they were returning as .00.<BR>So, I changed some fields to numeric(8,2), hoping that would help. Same ...

For reference, the SQL Specification defines a Numeric as: The following is based on observed behaviour of a variety of databases. All databases implement a defined subset of what we could think of as ...