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How to specify Decimal Precision and scale number in MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin?
You need to select a database when you are creating a table. Right now, I have a sample database. The snapshot is as follows:

Now you need to give the table name as well as the number of columns you want:

After that you need to press Go button. Now, the following section would be visible:

The DECIMAL requires two parameter i.e. Total Number of Digit and second one is DigitAfterDecimalPoint.
The structure of DECIMAL is as follows:
DECIMAL(X,Y)
Here, X is TotalNumberOfDigit and Y is DigitAfterDecimalPoint.
Let us see an example:
DECIMAL(6,4)
Above, we will be having 6 digit sand 2 digit safter decimal point. For example, the valid range can be 24.5678 or 560.23 etc.
Here is the setup in phpmyAdmin. The snapshot is as follows:

After giving column name for a table, you need to use “Save” button. Here is the structure of table:

There are two columns in the table DecimalPrecisionDemo. One is Id which is of type int and second one is Amount of type DECIMAL(6,4).
