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>>Thanks, guys. I'm pretty math impaired. I was thinking that I could use a numeric field for data entry but bind to a textcolumn and have a trigger on the backend translate that to decimal(22,10) Does that sound workable. ?
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>Dunno - do you use that field to calculate anything ?
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>If not - leave it as text/string - use a RegEx to validate the input
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>As to the trigger question - cannot answer - but if possible - I think you need two fields - or maybe better, have string field and add a calculated field decimal(22,10). Then you have only the string field to update
yes, the 2 fields was what I had i mind. I like the idea of text with Regex validation - hadn't thought of using regex but it is a good idea.
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