have you had a look at the alter database command?

You can set the options to comment in the options pane - set it back to the old shiftctrl C if you want.

Oh - and btw - to UNComment (or...

tricksy tricksy....

What exactly is your problem - unable to read and understand perhaps?  I suggest you go and lookup what tongue in cheek means, assuming that your level of ignorance is...

Thanks for the constructive responses - I shall look into that technique.

Ok Currencies, and at least as bad: Countries.

Country Iso codes (ISO 3166) has a name, 2Char code, 3Char code and a...

'philM99'  doesn't understand what the issues I have are.   The suggestions 'philM99' give to write articles telling dba's why poorly implemented surrogate keys, irrational identities, and inline sql translations of...

grraaagh.

Just noticed he's using the return code from the stored procs to pass out data.  Like the id of the record he's just inserted.

I...

As hugo says - its a duff question.

Now if only I can figure out the shortcut to replace ctrl-b ...

I am no particular fan of EM, I find it great for a few select tasks - like checking/creating Agent Jobs, browsing sql logs, looking at the diagrams etc.  The...

Thanks, that is a good explanation of what is happening, and the BOL excerpt is what I am asking about.  My problem still remains with this default of 6.

But...

If we could step away from the 1/x issue, which I acknowledged earlier was an oversight, and focus on my later question, which I shall repost for the sheer joy...

So is anyone able to explain this accurately in easy to understand terms?

Cheers

No, I am not.

Try this:

declare

 @a decimal(38,15),

 @B decimal(38,15),

 @c decimal(38,15)

select

 @a = cast(1.4552325465737373654654  as decimal(38,15)),

 @B =cast( 3.1456144545446216545   as decimal(38,15))

select @a, @b-2 , @a * @b-2

select @c = @a  * @b-2

select...

Nah, tried that its the same.

The only thing that increased the scale of the answer, was as I mentioned, dropping the precision of the items to be multiplied, or dramatically...

Thanks, yes I looked at this a bit.  Counld'nt really make that much sense of it.

I am using 38p throughout with a 15s. 

Reading the note you posted made me...