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

SQLite has no BigDecimal field So I use the SQLite Integer type and convert like so: BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal("1234.5678"); int packedInt = bd.scaleByPowerOfTen(4).intValue(); // packedInt now = 12345678 Now save packedInt to SQLite Integer field. To go back to BigDecimal: BigDecimal bd = new BigDecimal(packedInt); // bd = 12345678 bd = bd.scaleByPowerOfTen(-4); // now bd = 1234.5678