Re: Smallmoney and money rounded to 2 decimals?

Frediano Ziglio <[email protected]> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 08:41:35 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
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2018-04-06 12:59 GMT+01:00 Sebastien FLAESCH <[email protected]>:
> Hi all,
>
> Using FreeTDS 1.00.9:
>
> When fetching a smallmoney or money data, SQLDescribeCol() returns
> the sqltype SQL_DECIMAL, precision 10 for smallmoney and or 19 for
> money and a scale of 4 for both types, which is fine, since smallmoney
> and money can store 4 decimal digits.
>
> Using an SQL_C_CHAR buffer to hold the values, we see that the decimal
> part is rounded to 2 digits...
>
> Is this expected?
>
> using other ODBC drivers for SQL Server we get 4 decimal digits.
>
> Is there some configuration settings to control this?
>
> Thanks!
> Seb

Just checked. Yes, apparently Microsoft ODBC drivers format money with
4 decimal digit.
I think in the past tools used 2 digits but they moved to 4 along the way.
There's actually no way to change that behavior but probably there should be.
The 2 digits code is currently quite hard coded in src/tds/convert.c
and src/tds/numeric.c.
I suppose a good way would be to add a flag to TDSCONTEXT (which is
used during conversion to pass locale information).

Frediano