>Hi all,
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>When I do a SELECT SQL, can I use a function to do calculation and return to a cursor? Example: SELECT cnoee, dmysum(yamt1+yamt2+...) from dpayrslt. If yes, how does the SQL knows what type and how many decimal it should create for the second field?
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>Actually I have done the above and the second field it returns currency which I wants. When I change the SQL to SELECT dpayrslt.cnoee,demas.cname,dmysum(yamt1+yamt2+....) from demas,dpayrslt where demas.cnoee=dpayrslt.cnoee, the second field becomes numeric 1? Why and how I overcome this?
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>Thanks in advance.

For determining the length of a column, a sql statement is executed twice for the first record, so if record say returns 1. the length will be set to 1.

you can try something like mycolumn+000000.00