• I'm with Luis. The money data type seems attractive, but it just leads to headaches. Use decimals and keep going.

    The only issue around that from a data standpoint is that you can define the type of money you're dealing with in the data structure. This can act as protection for your systems, but I'm pretty sure the that it's not worth it in most cases.

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