Network Programming in .NET

If you want to specify a price including a currency, you can always write EUR 1,234 or USD 1,234, but it’s more concise to write $1,234 or €1,234, and users expect that format. You can always handle this at application layer, but here’s how to do it at Database layer.

Here, I’ve created a table of the currencies I needed, – it’s not complete, and I hope that someone can post a link to a complete table.

create table CurrencyLocales
( 
 id int identity(1,1),
 currency varchar(3),
 locale varchar(5)
)


insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('AUD','en-AU')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('BRL','pt-BR')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('CAD','en-CA')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('CZK','cs-CZ')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('DKK','da-DK')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('EUR','en-IE')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('GBP','en-GB')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('HUF','hu-HU')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('MXN','es-MX')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('MYR','en-MY')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('NOK','nb-NO')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('NZD','en-NZ')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('RUB','ru-RU')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('SEK','sv-SE')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('SGD','en-SG')
insert into CurrencyLocales (currency,locale) values ('USD','en-US')

create index idxCurrency on CurrencyLocales(currency)

-- example
select *, FORMAT(1234, 'C', locale) as formattedPrice  from CurrencyLocales