On 17 December 2014 14:21:40 CET, Patrick Sherrill <patr...@michael-clarke.com> wrote: >We always store as strings to avoid rounding issues and then convert >for calcs to whatever precision we need. >Pat...
So you'll still be affected by rounding errors during conversion and calculation, two problems you'd avoid when using DECIMAL instead ... -- Hartmut Holzgraefe, Principal Support Engineer (EMEA) MariaDB Corporation | http://www.mariadb.com/ -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql