Display Scientific Notation values in columns

Hi,
I have a column in a table that apparently displays the values in
Scientific Notation. That is, the value in each column is always
displayed as "6.4211E+15". Each value in this column should be a
unique or different value. If I type "select * from <table_name>
where <column_name> != 6.4211E+15;", I still get every row in
this table. Is there a way to display the full value of this
column so that I can view the unique value for each of these
rows? If so, how does one accomplish this?
Thank you,

Welcome to SDN.
do you mean to say that in some rows some column values will be blank and you want to replace the blanks with '-'.
loop thru the itab which you are passing to tableview and for the blank cells pass '-'.
<i>Also when the value is inserted at run time</i>
so you are having editable tableview. to update the value back to the dbtable, you have to read it in oninputprocessing and update it to dbtable .
search the forum on how to read the user entered value from the table view so that you can update the dbtable.
Regards
Raja

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