Re: float to int conversion
diego.manilla@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes, those numbers represent dates, and
yes, I would have used another data type to store them, but that's not
my choice. The fields are declared with a decimal data type in the
What is the exact type in the data store?
What is the date format, DDMMYYYY?
DDBB
DBMS? If not, what is a "DDBB"?
I'm accessing to, so I was using resultSet.getFloat() to retrieve
the values, and then casting to int and using a DateFormat to parse
the values. I think it's probable that resultSet.getInt() will have
the same problems.
Floating-point types are the worst possible choice here, much, much worse than
using an integral type. You couldn't be more mistaken.
Note that Java has BigInteger and BigDecimal types.
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/ResultSet.html#getBigDecimal(java.lang.String)>
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/sql/PreparedStatement.html#setBigDecimal(int,%20java.math.BigDecimal)>
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