Input maximum for field type numeric

Question

my coldfusion page will not let me input 1000000 into my
database (field type in DB is numeric), any thoughts on this
please?
error is
"Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Arithmetic
overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric.
many thanks in advance for any help

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by "length" as the two parameters
for the NUMERIC type are precision and scale:
PRECISION: Specifies the maximum total number of decimal
digits that can be stored, both to the left and to the right of the
decimal point.
SCALE: Specifies the maximum number of decimal digits that
can be stored to the right of the decimal point. The default scale
is 0; therefore, 0 <= s <= p.
Are you referring to "length" as the number of bytes? A
number with a precision of 10 would take 9 bytes, otherwise if you
had a scale of 9, such as in a column of type NUMERIC(10, 9), it
would be a number of 10 digits, 9 of which would be to the RIGHT of
the decimal point.
A value of 1000000 should fit into a NUMERIC(10) (default
scale=0) column without raising an exception. What does your insert
statement look like? Are you applying any kind of function to the
value such as using CAST() or CONVERT()?
Phil