es336td wrote:
...the other DBAs changed it to just NUMBER
isn't that default (15,38)?
(15,38) is likely a mistake. The precision must at least equal the scale. The Oracle documentation on numerical types suggests that the default precision and scale are (38,2).
In any case, in my previous posting I only wished to explain why the system would have saved 123.87654321 as 123.87700000. If you have 11 pigeons and 10 holes, then something's bound to give.