From: Reggie Burnett
Date: February 21 2007 4:24pm
Subject: RE: MySQL not taking a Double.MaxValue
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> 
> Hi guys;
> 
> Just a quick question (I am busy writing unit tests for my Business
> Objects
> system)
> I've got a simple object that stores every CLR type and I'm going thru
> testing it's min/max values;
> 
> so for example; (pseudo code)
> 
> INSERT INTO `TESTA`
> (`boolean`,`byte`,`sbyte`,`char`,`decimal`,`double`,`enumdayofweek`,`fl
> oat`,
> `int16`,`int32`,`int64`,`uint16`,`uint32`,`uint64`,`texta`,`textb`,`tex
> tc`,`
> textd`,`texte`)
> VALUES
> (?boolean,?byte,?sbyte,?char,?decimal,?double,?enumdayofweek,?float,?in
> t16,?
> int32,?int64,?uint16,?uint32,?uint64,?texta,?textb,?textc,?textd,?texte
> )
> 
> 

It appears that there are slight differences between the max value supported
by MySQL and Double.MaxValue.

MySQL:  1.7976931348623157E+308
.NET :  1.79769313486232  E+308