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Currency vs Numeric
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30/08/2005 02:36:24
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8
OS:
Windows XP SP1
Network:
Windows 2003 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01044699
Message ID:
01045037
Views:
30
>Hi Tore,
>
>>Currency is always 8 bytes, so in many cases you will save space.
>
>But isn't a double field also 8 bytes?

Yes, but the question was not what was the advantage of double over numeric. :-)

I have many fields in my accounting program which are n(12,2), so in theory I would save four byte per record/field by converting them into currency. But since space is not a problem, I have not changed them.
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