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Richard Bounds commented on DDLUTILS-20:
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I think the problem is that when you specify a precision without a scale, it 
implicitly specifies a scale of 0 (e.g. look at the top 2 rows in the table).

When I try this on my Oracle 10g database:

CREATE TABLE testnumber
(
    num NUMBER(38)
);
insert into testnumber values(1.5);
select num from testnumber;

I get back '2', not '1.5'. When I specify the type as:

CREATE TABLE testnumber
(
    num NUMBER
);

I get back the correct value. Unfortunately I haven't got an Oracle 8 database 
to try it on.


> Oracle FLOAT and DOUBLE type mappings have zero scale
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>          Key: DDLUTILS-20
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DDLUTILS-20
>      Project: DdlUtils
>         Type: Bug
>     Reporter: Richard Bounds
>     Assignee: Thomas Dudziak

>
> In Oracle8Platform, the types FLOAT and DOUBLE are mapped to NUMBER(38). 
> According to Oracle's docs, this type has zero scale. It looks like floating 
> point numbers should be specified either as just NUMBER or FLOAT(n). See:
> http://oraclelon1.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/sql_elements001.htm#g196646

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