Re: Access97 problems with Informix Online 7.12 and I-CLI 2.5

Posted in 1997

William Harris — 10 Jun 1997 15:49:25 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In article <339C7EFC.76C2@nospam.bridge.bellsouth.com>, heather.chipka@nospam.bridge.bellsouth.com says... >> - DECIMAL becomes a Text string >This is not correct. It should become Number(Double) I am not sure of >your problem here. Given what a decimal type is (an almost abitrary precision number), I can see why Microsoft might choose to represent it as a text field instead of a number. I don't think an Access "number" could handle a DECIMAL (31,5), for example. -- William Harris william@carsinfo.com