What is the data type for Currency in SQL Server?

answering to the question in the title, the datatype for currency is MONEY. the money datatype will store the information only, without the format: in your example the information is 11.23 so that’s what is saved into the database. the $ sign is part of the format so it will not be stored into the money field. the usual solution is to have a MONEY field … Read more

SQL Client for Mac OS X that works with MS SQL Server

Let’s work together on a canonical answer. Native Apps SQLPro for MSSQL Navicat Valentina Studio TablePlus Java-Based Oracle SQL Developer (free) SQuirrel SQL (free, open source) Razor SQL DB Visualizer DBeaver (free, open source) SQL Workbench/J (free, open source) JetBrains DataGrip Metabase (free, open source) Netbeans (free, open source, full development environment) Electron-Based Visual Studio Code with mssql extension Azure Data … Read more

What are named pipes?

Both on Windows and POSIX systems, named-pipes provide a way for inter-process communication to occur among processes running on the same machine. What named pipes give you is a way to send your data without having the performance penalty of involving the network stack. Just like you have a server listening to a IP address/port … Read more

What are database constraints?

Constraints are part of a database schema definition. A constraint is usually associated with a table and is created with a CREATE CONSTRAINT or CREATE ASSERTION SQL statement. They define certain properties that data in a database must comply with. They can apply to a column, a whole table, more than one table or an entire schema. A reliable … Read more