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Re: Decimal fields in tables
Posted by: Peter Brawley
Date: February 18, 2012 10:53AM

> I need db to store any value the user puts. any range!

Think again. There must be a limit to column width, and it is your job to define it.

> could be 10.000.000 (ten million) or 1.10

Again, you have to define a maximum value that can be stored. If it's ten million and three decimals, for example, that's decimal(11,3).

> They must be on the same table! makes no sense if I have to make diferent fields just by guessing how many zeros the user might enter!

Read again. Nobody mentioned different fields, nobody mentioned guessing.

drop table if exists t;
create table t(d decimal(11,3));
insert into t values(10000000.001),(1.001);
select * from t;
+--------------+
| d            |
+--------------+
| 10000000.001 |
|        1.001 |
+--------------+

If you want to control formatting more precisely, write a function in MySQL, or in your app language, to cover all formatting possibilities you wish to cover.

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