Re: dbconvert SYBMONEY to String

"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.tds.freetds
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ken Collins wrote:
> 1> SELECT [id], [money] FROM [datatypes] WHERE [money] IS NOT NULL;
> 2> GO
> id	  money
> 161	  4.20
> 162	  -922337203685477.58
> 163	  922337203685477.58

The above doesn't show any loss of precision; it shows only that the
client you're using prints MONEY fields as strings with two digits of
precision.  That's that client's choice.  

	select 10000 * sum(money) from datatypes where id in (162,163)

should show -1.  

--jkl
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