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Old 11-02-04, 11:52
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What is the maximum precision and scale supported by Different databases.
Hi All!
I am developing some generic application for which I want to know, what is the precision and scale suppoted by different databases for numeric type. I know that, for Oracle in number(precision, scale),
precision is in the range of 1 to 38 and scale is in the range of -84 to 127.

I need the same information for following databases, mainly first 6

DB2
Informix
Sybase
MySQL
HSQL
Acces

Adabas
Pervasive.SQL
Postgre SQL
Ingress
Interbase
McKoi SQL
NoArg SQL
Pointbase
SAP DB
Firebird
Frontbase
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Old 11-02-04, 12:27
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for Oracle in number(precision, scale),
precision is in the range of 1 to 38 and scale is in the range of -84 to 127.
Are you sure about that scale thing?
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Old 11-02-04, 12:30
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Information about DB2 data types can be found here:

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/ps/produc...S/db2s1e81.pdf
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