On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:53 PM, RSmith <rsm...@rsweb.co.za> wrote: > By the way, my Oracle friends should intersect here if need be, but I > believe the oracle method of /decimal(n,m)/ is simply a representation > directive and constraint, there is no native datatype that actually stores > or communicates such a value. Oracle stores it internally in a very > specific arrangement of bytes and you need to still interpret it in your > software. >
Not so. OCI has native support for Number client side via OCINumber and associated functions to convert to native C types, and can do 128-bit integer arithmetic for example even when the C/C++ native types cannot. And it's a value type, not an opaque type, so you can decode the internal well-known byte rep if you want to even. --DD _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
