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Slash money

  • November 29, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    #77840

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  • November 29, 2018 at 10:15 pm

    #2015047

    Stranger things have been known to happen...
    Interesting question, thanks

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  • November 30, 2018 at 12:11 am

    #2015054

    Nice question, thanks Steve.

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  • November 30, 2018 at 3:03 am

    #2015063

    Actually not only money type can be initialized this way. It works at any type where an implicit conversion from 0.00 is available, as select \; returns 0.00

  • November 30, 2018 at 3:14 am

    #2015065

    Since it's not gold backed anymore it seems you can turn just about anything into money!

  • November 30, 2018 at 4:07 am

    #2015077

    is it considered a currency symbol somewhere?
    all these return 0.00

    select \
    select £
    select $
    select ¥
    select €

  • November 30, 2018 at 7:39 am

    #2015114

    So, to combine QOTD from yesterday and today; if you really want to upset your colleagues, you can have.

    Declare @ money;
    Select @=\

  • November 30, 2018 at 7:52 am

    #2015120

    davidandrews13 - Friday, November 30, 2018 4:07 AM

    is it considered a currency symbol somewhere?
    all these return 0.00

    select \
    select £
    select $
    select ¥
    select €

    You may be on to something.  I was wondering, is it documented or was this an intentional/accidental discovery?

  • November 30, 2018 at 9:42 am

    #2015143

    Bert-701015 - Friday, November 30, 2018 7:52 AM

    davidandrews13 - Friday, November 30, 2018 4:07 AM

    is it considered a currency symbol somewhere?
    all these return 0.00

    select \
    select £
    select $
    select ¥
    select €

    You may be on to something.  I was wondering, is it documented or was this an intentional/accidental discovery?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backslash

    i was looking at this and a paragraph caught my eye:

    In the Japanese encodings ISO 646 (a 7-bit code based on ASCII), JIS X 0201 (an 8-bit code), and Shift JIS (a multi-byte encoding which is 8-bit for ASCII), the code point 0x5C that would be used for backslash in ASCII is instead rendered as a yen mark (Â¥), while in Korean encoding, it is drawn as a won currency symbol (â‚©)

    whether i misunderstood it, or not, it looked like it was saying the backslash could be rendered as a Currency Symbol in certain encodings. so i thought i'd try other Currency Symbols.

  • December 6, 2018 at 8:37 am

    #2015674

    random but good to know

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