I've always been frustrated when having to deal with ODBC connections myself. It looks like if you are going to continue using MS-SQL you're going to have to deal with workarounds such as this.

<open source pitch>

I would highly recomment switching to PostgreSQL, or one of the other excellent open source databases, but it's understandable if that option isn't feasible for various reasons. Although if you had this same problem with an open source database, you can just go in the source and fix it instead of having to wait 4 years and continue work arounds.

</open source pitch>

In reply to Re: DBD::ODBC and binding to a money column by redhotpenguin
in thread DBD::ODBC and binding to a money column by thor

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