FreeTDS Development Group

["Lowden, James K" <LowdenJK AT bernstein.com>]

> From:  Piet De Jong
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 10:12 AM
> 
> just doing some tests on tsql, and get some surprising/unexpected
> results.
> The money datatype only seems to return 2 decimal places ? whereas in
> sql query analyzer it does return 4.

The question behind your question is, "How does tool X convert the
[small]money datatype to a character string?"  Answer: it's up to the
tool.  tsql doesn't emulate Microsoft's Query Analyzer.  

Try your query with Microsoft's isql.exe, btw.  Behold the difference!
;-)

tsql presents money according to T-SQL's default money-to-string
conversion format.  You could try this to prove it:

1> select cast(cast(1 as money) as char(10)), cast(cast(1 as smallmoney)
as char(10))
2> go

 ---------- ----------
       1.00       1.00

HTH.

--jkl



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