Big time DBAs, don’t laugh! But honestly, couldn’t it have been easier to format a numeric value as an amount with decimals? Maybe it will help others trying to format dollar amounts which are stored like 1234.1861 in SQL Server to look like 1234.19, for example. So deceivingly simple…

Here is how I searched BigG and found little:

TSQL display dollar amount

TSQL format dollar amount

TSQL format currency no dollar sign

Just pop this around the field name you need to format and you’re in business!

CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), CONVERT(MONEY, fieldname)) AS PRICE

Cheers!