It seems like an elementary thing but dealing with numbers beyond whole integers in software is tricky. Differences between rounding in code vs rounding in database storage can catch you off guard if ...

Our system uses SQL Server's DECIMAL(38,18) throughout the database — especially for tracking payment amounts, tributes, fees, and high-volume ledger balances. However, .NET’s decimal type overflows ...

Recently I encountered a problem in a stored procedure that was caused by an unexpected result from the SQL Server ISNUMERIC() function. I was using SQL Server 2008 R2 but the issue has long been ...