Data Management  Displaying money values in currency format in
SQL  Arthur Fuller responds to a reader who sent him a question
recently asking how to display currency amounts in currency
format. Check out the solution he offers for the reader's
problem.  A reader sent me a question recently in which he
wanted to know how to display currency amounts in the format we
commonly refer to as currency. (I realize how geo-centric this
is, so I will attempt to be world-centric in my response to the
reader's question.)  Let's use the Northwind database as our
testbed. Consider the following SQL request:  USE Northwind    
Quantity * UnitPrice AS Amount FROM [Order Details]  This
request results in a set that looks like Listing A (which is an
abbreviated list). This delivers the correct answers yet not in
the desired format. We can alter the look of the money columns,
but there is a cost of sorts. For instance, the statement in
Listing B delivers what we want (i.e., amounts formatted as
currency).  The reader also wante