It seems that the "decimal" type allows more flexibility but also uses more storage than "money". On the other hand, does "money" have any special t-sql functions that understand its unquie nature? (e.g. adding two money values together with no cents round-off error).
For example, would the number 12345.12 be declared as a decimal(7,2) or currency?
Barkingdog
There aren't any special functions that explicitly recognize a monetary data type. How you declare it really depends upon what you are storing in there. If I'm storing pricing or something else that is in monetary units, I use money. If I'm doing complex financial caculations, I use decimal, because the money data type is accurate to 4 decimal places and for calculating a lot of financial stuff, you need better accuracy than that.