4 Errors I Made When Building A Financial Application

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The disadvantage of working with integers is also that it has a limit of 2147483647 which is roughly € 21,474,836.47. Although with the euro you probably wouldn’t run into this issue quickly but with the Vietnamese Dong, this wouldn’t work. Learnings: use decimals (not floats!) in MySQL to store monetary values. Depending on how many decimals you need decimal(15,2) oftentimes is enough.