what datatype is best for store the salary for a employee

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hi friend

I have a doubt of choosing the data type for a employee salary like Rs of 26699.65 what data type can i use for that
Is decimal , double , float , money

help me please

thanks in advance :-)

Posted 28-Jul-13 20:39pm

Sureshfrompalladam

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RedDk 29-Jul-13 13:40pm

In TSQL ... either money (8 bytes) or smallmoney (4 bytes ... -214,748.3648 to 214,748.3647). Dedicated data type, accurate to 10000th of the unit used.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188688(v=sql.105).aspx

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ErBhati · Accepted Answer · 2013-07-28T20:41:00

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I think u can use decimal or money data type..

Posted 28-Jul-13 20:41pm

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Sureshfrompalladam 29-Jul-13 3:12am

if i use decimal means it automatically convert into double and show me the error as
cannot store double into decimal ..

ErBhati 29-Jul-13 5:40am

convert ur value to decimal

like decimal employee salary=convert.todecimal(textboox.text);

ErBhati 31-Jul-13 8:19am

or salary=convert.todouble(textbox.text);

Sureshfrompalladam 6-Aug-13 1:08am

thank you so much for your valuable reply ....
its converted double only at the run time so no problem in decimal values

ErBhati 6-Aug-13 5:33am

mark as answer for this....