Why does the JDBC specification recommend using getDouble() for SQL FLOAT types?
Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=448108 Created: Jun 30, 2001 Author: Joe Sam Shirah (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=42100) For the full answer, see the JDBC(tm) Technology Guide: Getting Started, Section 8.3.10: FLOAT. Briefly, “in practice all the major databases supporting FLOAT support a mantissa precision of at least 15 digits.” That is, the equivalent of a Java double.
