PRB: Cannot Insert Money/Float Larger Than 2147483647

ID: Q67407

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SYMPTOMS

Trying to insert or update a value greater than the largest allowed integer value, 2,147,483,647, into a MONEY or FLOAT field results in the following error message:

The integer value xxx is out of the range of machine representation (4 bytes).


WORKAROUND

A constant of the form 2147483648 is interpreted by SQL Server as an integer. Since the value is being treated as an integer, it cannot exceed the largest legal value for that type.

Either of the following options will resolve this problem:

  1. Add a decimal at the end to have SQL Server recognize the number as a float value: 2147483648.00


  2. Place a dollar sign in front to have SQL Server recognize the number as a money value: $2147483648


Additional query words: Windows NT 


Keywords          : kbother SSrvTrans SSrvWinNT 
Version           : 4.2 | 4.2
Platform          : OS/2 WINDOWS 
Issue type        :

Last Reviewed: March 10, 1999