I want to support 8.0, 8.22,8.333 ect using a decimal. What is the best way to accomplish this?
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I want to support 8.0, 8.22,8.333 ect using a decimal. What is the best way to accomplish this?
A DECIMAL field has a fixed precision and can’t be made to vary per-record. If you want variable precision, you’d need to use a FLOAT. Or you have a decimal field set to the highest required precision, and then use a second integer field to store how many digits that particular record should use.