Karen & Albert I tried it all ways, including the update testtable set bignocol = (float(invno)) and I get the text of the command ' update testtable set bignocol = (float(invno))' for every row in that column, same if I leave off the float...
Frank Taylor - Director of Information Technology F.J. O'Hara & Sons, Inc - Araho Transfer Inc. Boston, MA - Rockland, ME - Miami, FL Direct Dial - 617-790-3093 email: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Albert Berry Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:02 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: 9.5 and BigNum I fooled around here, and came up with the following from data types: BIGNUM maps to DECIMAL DECIMAL maps to DOUBLE so I made a dummy database using an invoices table from another database (59,000+ records) ALTER TABLE Invoices ADD InvNoBig DOUBLE UPDATE Invoices SET InvNoBig = InvNo -- ERROR UPDATE Invoices SET InvNoBig = (FLOAT(InvNo)) -- ERROR UPDATE Invoices SET InvNoBig = FLOAT(InvNo) -- Yeah!!! Albert On 18/06/2013 10:40 AM, Karen Tellef wrote: > Good thought. Nope, gives me the same thing > > Karen > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Albert Berry <[email protected]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:36 am > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: 9.5 and BigNum > > A thought on your try #2 - try FLOATing the invoice number when you do > the update. > > UPDATE ... SET TestBigNum = (FLOAT(InvNo)) > > That might get the update to work. > Albert > > > > > Try #2: So I added a new column to the table TestBigNum (11,0). > If I > type in a value, the "select ... = 1037005" works perfectly. So now > > to get the data over there... I tried: > UPDATE acctrec SET > TestBigNum = InvNo > But I actually get the letters "NaN" in the column! > > > Anyone have a clue how to get these old values converted into a > BigNum > that is searchable, or is this perhaps a bug (I've never used > > BigNum > before) > > Karen > > No virus found in this message. > > Checked by AVG -www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> > <http://www.avg.com> > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com <http://www.avg.com> > Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3199/6420 - Release Date: > 06/18/13 >
