title: Why can't I insert a decimal into an sql server table?
body: <p>I have a simple query:</p>
  
  <pre><code>INSERT INTO tblIndicators (RunID, EventTS, MA1t3) 
  Values (65, '11/2/2012 2:25:00 AM', 1.0); 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get this error message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><em>Msg 8115, Level 16, State 8, Line 1<br>
    Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric.</em></p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The precision on the Decimal datatype is <code>(8,8)</code>. So whats the problem??</p>