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Thread: Storing data with trailing zeros in SQL Server 2000

Steve Knowles
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Storing data with trailing zeros in SQL Server 2000 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 04 Dec 06 8:43 AM

I have a client on SLX 6.2 sp3 (soon to be 7). They have a custom screen that stores numbers with decimal values. They want the field on the front end to show two trailing zeros if the number doesn't have any decimal places - ex. 23 would be displayed as 23.00. Currently the field is a float datatype. I tried all the formatting choices on the front end with not luck.

Is it possible to store/display the number with two trailing zeros (currently saves with one trailing zero - 23.0) with out adding custom code each time I pull the number from the db?

Thanks
Steve Knowles

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Storing data with trailing zeros in SQL Server 2000 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 04 Dec 06 11:23 AM

Is this in a grid, or just on a form? If it is just displaying on a form then you could always just pull the value and use VBScript FormatNumber to format the display and then place in a label or something. Would that work?

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Steve Knowles
Posts: 657

Re: Storing data with trailing zeros in SQL Server 2000 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 04 Dec 06 11:31 AM

That certainly would work - will need to call the code from several places (form, grids, mailmerge script etc.) as this field appears in more than one place. Just wanted to see if there where some kind of SQL trick or SLX front end formatting already in place. Not a big deal either way.

Steve K.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Storing data with trailing zeros in SQL Server 2000 Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 04 Dec 06 11:37 AM

Ah, SQL tricks, I have plenty of those

select cast(MyTwoDigitDecimalField as decimal(10,2)) as MyTwoDigitDecimalField from tablename

That will do it for you. It should work fine via the SLX provider, although I've not tested that.

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