title: how decimal digits before and after decimal point fixed in sql?
body: <p>I have a variable of type <code>decimal(26,16)</code> and i want to save a value with 12 digits before decimal point and 14 digits after it, but it raises an "Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric". when i define a variable of this type, what does it really mean? it means it can only store values with 10 digits before and 16 digits after decimal point respectively or something else?</p>