I haven’t found a lot of advice about what precision values to use for storing money in decimal fields. Here’s what I calculated. The scale is going to be 2 for US currency which requires 1 byte of storage. precision 4, scale 2 = 2 bytes of storage, 99.99 to -99.99 precision 6, scale 2 …
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