RE: Round or Trunc numbers

Here's a kludge:
Convert the number to CHAR and then convert the right most portion back to a number.
This could be done in a pre-insert trigger, couldn't it?

Tom Harleman
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From: root_at_fatcity.com [mailto:root_at_fatcity.com]On Behalf Of Christine Turner
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 2:28 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Round or Trunc numbers

Hello All,

Got a question regarding inserting numbers. Have a table where the number column is defined as 18,6. I'm getting the infomous ORA-01438: value larger than specified precision allows for this column error. OUCH! Anyway...I know there is a way to truncate the number to the right of the decimal, but is there a way to truncate from the left????  Anyway to make the number that is being inserted "fit" into the column regardless of the format that column has????

Thanks in Advance.

Christine Turner
Database Administrator
IPS-Sendero
Scottsdale, Arizona
Phone: (800) 321-6899 ext. 3286
Fax: (480) 946-8224
E-mail: christine.turner_at_ips-sendero.com

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