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29 Sep 2024 19:19:07 EDT (-0400)
  Re: COBOL Wow  
From: Darren New
Date: 12 Apr 2009 16:13:56
Message: <49e24b84$1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
> anyway, is it much of a hassle to use double to represent monetary values?

Yes. It's not correct.  Add up a billion dollars in penny increments, and 
tell me you can guarantee it's right.

> At workplace, at least, SQL responds pretty much for about 80% of the code, the
> rest being forms and reports in Delphi to either enter or extract data to/from
> the RDBMS.  Business rules validation on persistence is done by SQL stored
> procedures.

Yeah, OK, if most of your actual code is in SQL, I'll grant you that. :-) 
You still need something that supports the SQL data types, then.

> SQL alone, no.  But stored procedures get you many new abilities.

Granted.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!


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