Show comma instead of point as decimal separator

Question

I just want to get the right number format here in germany, so i need to show commas as decimal separator instead of points. But this...

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Answer 1

To provide the appropriate culture info, in SQL 2012 there is the FORMAT() function. Here's an example:

declare @f float = 123456.789;

select
  [raw]      = str(@f,20,3)
 ,[standard] = cast(format(@f, 'N', 'en-US') as varchar(20))
 ,[European] = cast(format(@f, 'N', 'de-de') as varchar(20))

returns

raw                  |standard   |European   |
---------------------|-----------|-----------|
          123456.789 |123,456.79 |123.456,79 |

You can also specify in the second parameter a custom format string with the same rules as for .NET.

Docs: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/hh213505.aspx