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  • Performance / Storage Comparisons : MONEY vs. DECIMAL

    As you may already know, I am not a big fan of the MONEY data type, because of its inflexibility, accuracy problems, and the expectations the name of the type evokes in new users.  If I had my way, MONEY would become a synonym for DECIMAL in SQL Server 2008 (allowing for specific precision and scale), and be removed in the following ...
    Posted to SQL Server Aggregator (Weblog) by Anonymous on April 28, 2008