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Unclear on the sizeof for decimal types. Does the size in bytes vary by precision as in sql server? Is the precision variable for the c# type 'decimal'?
I don't want to turn on unsafe code to just call sizeof on a decimal type. How would you approach this?
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C programming language is a machine-independent programming language that is mainly used to create many types of applications and operating systems such as Windows, and other complicated programs such as the Oracle database, Git, Python interpreter, and games and is considered a programming foundation in the process of ...
Compared to other languages—like Java, PHP, or C#—C is a relatively simple language to learn for anyone just starting to learn computer programming because of its limited number of keywords.
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The decimal keyword indicates a 128-bit data type.
Source: MSDN
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As others have said, decimal is always 16 bytes (128 bits). The precision of decimal is always 28/29 digits. It's a floating point type, unlike SQL's DECIMAL type. See my article on it for more details.
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