Function Required To Convert Packed Decimal In Binary(6) To Int (or Float)
Mar 8, 2007
I have been given some data from a Mainframe (AS400?) which has some fields coded in Packed Decimal. I have been able to load the data into a SQL2005 database table, but I now need to convert the Packed Decimal data in the binary(6) field to the appropriate integer (or float) value.
The field contains values such as the following:-
0x20202020200C
0x202020022025
0x20202020DFFA
I don't know how to interpret these. Has anyone got a function that can do this for me?
I've read several articles online that explain how packed decimal works, but none tell me how to interpret the last of my three examples. Can you help?
I can't take full credit for this. I want to share this with Jeff Moden who did the important research for this calculation here.
All I did was just adapting some old code according to the mantissa finding Jeff made and optimized it a little
Some test codeDECLARE@SomeNumber FLOAT, @BinFloat BINARY(8)
SELECT@SomeNumber = -185.6125, @BinFloat = CAST(@SomeNumber AS BINARY(8))
SELECT@SomeNumber AS [Original], CAST(@SomeNumber AS BINARY(8)) AS [Binary], dbo.fnBinaryFloat2Float(CAST(@SomeNumber AS BINARY(8))) AS [Converted], @SomeNumber - dbo.fnBinaryFloat2Float(CAST(@SomeNumber AS BINARY(8))) AS [Error]
And here is the code for the function.CREATE FUNCTION dbo.fnBinaryFloat2Float ( @BinaryFloat BINARY(8) ) RETURNS FLOAT AS BEGIN DECLARE@Part TINYINT, @PartValue TINYINT, @Mask TINYINT, @Mantissa FLOAT, @Exponent SMALLINT, @Bit TINYINT, @Ln2 FLOAT, @BigValue BIGINT
WHILE @Part <= 8 BEGIN SELECT@Part = @Part + 1, @PartValue = CAST(SUBSTRING(@BinaryFloat, @Part, 1) AS TINYINT), @Mask =CASE WHEN @Part = 2 THEN 8 ELSE 128 END
WHILE @Mask > 0 BEGIN IF @PartValue & @Mask > 0 SET @Mantissa = @Mantissa + EXP(-@Bit * @Ln2)
SELECT@Bit = @Bit + 1, @Mask = @Mask / 2 END END
RETURNSIGN(@BigValue) * @Mantissa * POWER(CAST(2 AS FLOAT), @Exponent - 1023) END Thanks again Jeff!
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[Code] ....
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