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To: Mears

I can explain.

15,2 Packed Decimal

15,2 means 15 decimal digits, 2 to the right of the decimal point.

Packet Decimal means that you store your decimal digits in 4-bits each (nibbles). 15 digits would require 8 bytes or 16 nibbles. That's Packed Decimal, a legacy numeric data type used to save storage space back in the days when megabyte drives cost megabucks.

HTH


28 posted on 01/31/2006 9:20:49 PM PST by DigitalVideoDude
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To: DigitalVideoDude

Gotcha !!! :>)


29 posted on 01/31/2006 9:22:26 PM PST by Mears (The Killer Queen-caviar and cigarettes.)
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