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Design Question - Money data-type

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#1: Oct 7 '08
hi,

i want to ask about money datatype, what makes it special or different that we better use it for a currency related field (like the price of a product) instead of using just, say a bigint or a decimal.


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#2: Oct 7 '08

re: Design Question - Money data-type

Here's a good read.

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re: Design Question - Money data-type

hi,

thanks for the information, it helps!
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