Another dumb question

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Courtney <courtney at northshoreagency.com>:

> Guys and Gals
>
> Is there a limit to the size of a numeric field?

16 digits to the left, 8 to the right of the decimal.

> My boss has a field
> defined as (14,.0) and he keeps getting "/OV"...any ideas as to why?  He
> says the data being added to this variable is all numeric...
[...]

If he's getting "/OV", then something overflowed.

Are you sure the result fits into a (14,.0) field?  (And that none of
the intermediate steps don't overflow their fields?)

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