Storing currency values in SQLite3

Question

I\'m dealing with lots of different currencies in my application, and I want to know what the \"best\" way is to store them in an SQLite3 database.

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Answer 1

Given that SQLite 3 will use up to 8 bytes to store INTEGER types, unless you are going to have numbers greater than 10^16, you should be just fine.

To put this in perspective, the world gross domestic product expressed in thousandths of a USD (a mill) is about 61'000'000'000'000'000 which sqlite3 has no problem expressing.

sqlite> create table gdp (planet string, mills integer);
sqlite> insert into gdp (planet, mills) values ('earth', 61000000000000000000);
sqlite> select * from gdp;
earth|61000000000000000000

Unless you are handling interplanetary accounting, I don't think you have to worry.