Microsoft KB Archive/260094

= FIX: The Schema Designer Does Not Support the Precision of DECIMAL and NUMERIC Data-Types that are More than 29 Places =

Article ID: 260094

Article Last Modified on 8/7/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q260094



SYMPTOMS
The Schema Designer does not support the precision of more than 29 places for either DECIMAL or NUMERIC data-types.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, install the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This bug was corrected in the latest service pack for Visual Studio 6.0.

For additional information about Visual Studio service packs, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

194295 HOWTO: Tell That a Visual Studio Service Pack Is Installed

To download the latest Visual Studio service pack, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/Aa718353.aspx



MORE INFORMATION
You can configure the Microsoft SQL Server to support precision of up to 38 places for both DECIMAL and NUMERIC data-types.

