RE: Money datatype in SQL Server

2008-06-10 Thread Jacob
Well... I use the money datatype in SQL server for our prices. I have had not issues. When we output, we use #dollarformat(queryname.price)#. Works for what we do. -Original Message- From: Charlie Griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:23 AM To: CF-Talk

Re: Money datatype in SQL Server

2008-06-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
hmm... this was the page i saw that seemed to strongly suggest that the money datatype could be problematic in terms of accuracy (even provided sample SQL to run in query analyzer to see the results): http://tinyurl.com/6fh8hl On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM, Jacob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: Money datatype in SQL Server

2008-06-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Charlie Griefer wrote: Is there any bottom line recommendation on using the Money datatype in SQL Server? I've googled and found a lot of folks say not to use it because of accuracy issues (and of course, the fact that it's proprietary), but I haven't seen any that suggest a better

Re: Money datatype in SQL Server

2008-06-10 Thread Charlie Griefer
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Charlie Griefer wrote: Is there any bottom line recommendation on using the Money datatype in SQL Server? I've googled and found a lot of folks say not to use it because of accuracy issues (and of course, the fact

Re: Money datatype in SQL Server

2008-06-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Make sure you read this message as UTF-8 (the list still strips the charset from the content-type header). Charlie Griefer wrote: There are some people here who suggest that it makes the database more self documenting, and I don't disagree with that... but if there are indeed accuracy

Re: Money datatype in SQL Server

2008-06-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Retry, and hopefully the charset stuff now works. Make sure you read this message as UTF-8 (the list still strips the charset from the content-type header). Charlie Griefer wrote: There are some people here who suggest that it makes the database more self documenting, and I don't disagree