Frank,

My prior post was written before I saw your latest, so it wasn't aimed at the points you raised. I'm going to decline getting into a debate about whether DECIMAL(38,20) is common or not (though I do work at a hedge fund right now, and we use it in a couple of places, though most stuff uses lower numbers, and floats (double precision) are also common), because that discussion generally goes nowhere productive fast. BTW 11.9.2 means nothing to me, just so you know 🙂