Hi Roy,

You can use CONVERT function to insert commas and than add '$' in front.

SELECT '$' + CONVERT( varchar(32), $15765.27, 1)

I think the BOL sample is wrong.

>Hi,
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>I would like to convert a money data type to character WITH the '$' and any commas.
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>I saw this in "SQL Server Books Online" help.
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>"For example, the following CAST function converts the numeric value of $157.27 into a character string of '$157.27':
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>CAST ( $157.27 AS VARCHAR(10) ) "
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>Now I tried it, but I don't get a string of '$157.27', I get '157.27'. Is this a typo on the help or I need to set some kind of setting? Is there a way to include the $ and commas other than writing my own character parsing function to put them in there?
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>Thanks.