I see that it is a variant of type VT_BSTR containing
"2345678.9123" (or whatever), and I have to use strtod() to convert it
to the number I want. Is there a way to write the query to ensure that
it will give me a number instead of a string?
The type selection is done in your ODBC wrapper, and
I believe ODBC will do type conversions for you. If not, use sscanf.
All sqlite data is stored as strings, I believe, anyway, so there's lots
of type conversion going whether it's explicit or not.
Representing dates as floating point numbers can be tricky because of
subtle rounding issues,
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