"Anith Sen" <an***@bizdatas olutions.com> wrote in message news:<7w******* **********@news read2.news.atl. earthlink.net>. ..
Are you using seeing this with both Output to Text & Output to Grid options?
The field where I last noticed this is a decimal(15,2), so I
tried to simplify things and address your question as follows
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create table atestneg (dollars decimal(15,2) null)
go
insert into atestneg (dollars) values (1)
go
insert into atestneg (dollars) values (-1)
go
insert into atestneg (dollars) values (-2)
go
select * from atestneg order by dollars
I see them, in grid view, with negative signs for the first two correctly.
Then I run an insert similar to this:
insert into atestneg(dollar s)
select my_real_values from my_real_table
where my_real_values< 0
select * from atestneg order by dollars
Now there are no negative signs, and the numbers appear to
go from highest to lowest, and then a 1 after the last one
(because of course they are really all negative except for
that last one).
I switched from "Results to grid" to "Results to text",
but still no negative signs.
I switched to "Results to file", ran it, gave a file name,
(drilled through a lot of annoying directories with spaces),
and found the file, and still no negative signs.
I tried instead, in Grid output mode now, this query
select * from atestneg where dollars<0 order by dollars
I still see the same thing (all my dollars descending except
for that trailing 1 which is really positive).
Copying & pasting from the grid output to OpenOffice Spreadsheet
or Microsoft Excel yields me a lot of numbers which still
look positive (and probably are, after the paste).
I wonder why the first three manually injected rows didn't
yield this problem behavior, but then adding a lot of
negative numbers to the same table did.
