On 12/2/05, Ron Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:30:53 -0500, Cees Hek wrote:
> > inserting 10,000 will result in a row that contains 9,999.99.  In
> > fact inserting anything over 9,999.99 will result in 9,999.99.
> > That seems to me to be a very easy mistake to make in an
> > application that can have some nasty consequences.
>
> Exactly: This is the sickening aspect of MySQL - you can't always be sure what
> it's actually doing on your behalf.

Well, I wouldn't exactly put it like that.  These things are fully
documented in the MySQL docs, and are not bugs, but implementation
details.  I bring it up more for the people that don't know MySQL
works this way.  I have run into lots of programmers that use MySQL
all the time without knowing its idiosyncrasies.

Cheers,

Cees

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