"Stephany Young" wrote:

> The length 0f 5 that you refer to is the numbers of bytes that SQL Server
> uses to store the value in.
>
> From a logical point of view the variable, requiring precision 9 and scale 6
> must be declared as:
>
> declare @taxpercent decimal(9,6)
>
> decimal(5) is the same as decimal(5,0) which is precision 5 and scale 0 and
> the result you are observing is completely correct.
>
>
> "Andre Ranieri" <AndreRanieri@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:13BEC8F7-3248-46AC-88A4-4A5239868BC8@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I'm writing a module to insert records to the main accounts table in
> > our
> > CRM database. I've noticed in testing that the tax percent, which is a
> > decimal data type with length 5, default value (0), precision 9 and scale
> > 6
> > always enters zero.
> >
> > I've noticed if I run the test T-SQL statement it always returns a value
> > of
> > 0.0 instead of 0.085.
> >
> > Any ideas on what I'm missing would be hugely appreciated, I'm sort of
> > tearing my hair out here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Andre
> >
> > declare @taxpercent decimal(5)
> > set @taxpercent = 0.085000
> > select @taxpercent
>
>