Is it a case of it coming out of the database in Scientific notation,
b/c it is so large?

How does it work usually with normal CFML Queries and Query Params?

Mark

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Chris Woerz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I completely agree with you about the nightmare that this will be :P
>
> the data_type in the database(oracle) is NUMBER(22,0)
> and in the transfer def is <id name="id" type="numeric" column="id"
> generate="true"/>
>
> most of the time it works fine, but every once in a while it gets
> converted to scientific notation. which is fine if it happens in a
> <form> because i can javacast() it on the page but for transfer there
> is no workaround that i could find.
>
> as much as i would love to slash and burn we have 30 years of historic
> data in there so not much i can do about the keys.
>
>
> On Mar 2, 3:54 pm, Brian Kotek <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is this a string field or a numeric field? It sounds like the type defined
>> in the Transfer config is not the correct type?
>>
>> Aside from that, I'm having a hard time understanding why anyone would use a
>> value like this as a primary key. If two records are created at the same
>> time, what happens? One just throws an error? If you have control of the
>> schema, can you change it to an autoincrementing id or at least a UUID? This
>> sounds like it's going to turn into a nightmare later.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Chris Woerz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > I have a table with a primary key that based on the datetime at record
>> > creation (ie 20090226114107) recently when i invoke save() i get an
>> > error because the primary key that transfer tries to insert is
>> > '2.0090226114107E13'. is there anyway to resolve this? im pretty new
>> > to transfer and i inherited an app that im not sure was setup
>> > correctly.
> >
>



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