>SQL Server can implicitly convert a valid string to decimal(22,10).
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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. ?
Wow, that does make a difference. I may start playing with some ideas based on that and Gregory's suggestion of using regex for validation.
Thanks all !!
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