SQL Format Currency Code Examples

By: Daniel Calbimonte | Updated: 2021-11-11 | Comments (2) | Related: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | > Functions System

Problem

When working with currency formats, there are many different formats used around the world. For example, in the USA we use the $ for the currency symbol and a decimal point as a separator. Whereas in Latin America, we use the decimal point instead of a comma as the separator. Is there a simple way to handle the format of different currencies in Microsoft SQL Server?

Solution

In this tutorial, we will show different ways to output different currency formats with the T-SQL language.

FORMAT Function to Format Currency

You can change the currency format using the SQL Server FORMAT function. This function allows you to format currency output. The following example will show how to work with a different number of decimal places:

Number Format	Syntax	Output
Default currency value	SELECT FORMAT(200.3639, 'C') AS 'Currency Format'	$200.36
Currency, 3 decimals	SELECT FORMAT(200.3639, 'C3') AS 'Currency Format'	$200.364
Currency, 4 decimals	SELECT FORMAT(200.3639, 'C4', 'en-us') AS 'Currency Format'	$200.3639

Custom Format Currency Options

Here are other ways to have custom currency output. In these examples we use different SQL Server functions to change the output.

Number Format	Syntax	Output
Use REPLACE to change currency symbol	SELECT REPLACE(FORMAT(200.36, 'C'),'$','£') AS 'Currency Format'	£200.36
Custom format with spaces	SELECT FORMAT(200.3639,'$### . ####') AS 'Currency Format';	$200 . 3639
Change period to comma	SELECT REPLACE(FORMAT(200.36, 'C', 'en-us'),'.',',') AS 'Currency Format'	$200,36

SQL FORMAT Function to Format Currency with Culture

There are hundreds of cultures already defined for SQL databases and the below output shows how the FORMAT function can be used and what the output looks like.

Language	Syntax	Output
Afrikaans - South Africa	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'af-ZA') as date	R200,36
Albanian - Albania	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sq-AL') as date	200 Lekë
Alsatian - France	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'gsw-FR') as date	200,36 €
Amharic - Ethiopia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'am-ET') as date	ብር200.36
Arabic - Algeria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-DZ') as date	200.36 د.ج.‏
Arabic - Bahrain	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-BH') as date	200.364 د.ب.‏
Arabic - Egypt	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-EG') as date	200.36 ج.م.‏
Arabic - Iraq	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-IQ') as date	200.36 د.ع.‏
Arabic - Jordan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-JO') as date	200.364 د.ا.‏
Arabic - Kuwait	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-KW') as date	200.364 د.ك.‏
Arabic - Lebanon	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-LB') as date	200.36 ل.ل.‏
Arabic - Libya	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-LY') as date	200.364 د.ل.‏
Arabic - Morocco	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-MA') as date	200.36 د.م.‏
Arabic - Oman	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-OM') as date	200.364 ر.ع.‏
Arabic - Qatar	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-QA') as date	200.36 ر.ق.‏
Arabic - Saudi Arabia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-SA') as date	200.36 ر.س.‏
Arabic - Syria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-SY') as date	200.36 ل.س.‏
Arabic - Tunisia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-TN') as date	200.364 د.ت.‏
Arabic - U.A.E.	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-AE') as date	200.36 د.إ.‏
Arabic - Yemen	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ar-YE') as date	200.36 ر.ي.‏
Armenian - Armenia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'hy-AM') as date	200.36 ֏
Assamese - India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'as-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
Azerbaijani - Azerbaijan (Cyrillic)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'az-Cyrl-AZ') as date	200,36 ₼
Azerbaijani - Azerbaijan (Latin)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'az-Latn-AZ') as date	200,36 ₼
Bangla (Bangladesh)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'bn-BD') as date	200.36৳
Bangla - India (Bengali Script)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'bn-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
Bashkir - Russia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ba-RU') as date	200,36 ₽
Basque - Basque	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'eu-ES') as date	200,36 €
Belarusian - Belarus	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'be-BY') as date	200,36 Br
Bosnian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Cyrillic)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'bs-Cyrl-BA') as date	200,36 КМ
Bosnian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Latin)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'bs-Latn-BA') as date	200,36 KM
Breton - France	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'br-FR') as date	200,36 €
Bulgarian - Bulgaria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'bg-BG') as date	200,36 лв.
Burmese - Myanmar	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'my-MM') as date	200 K
Catalan - Catalan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ca-ES') as date	200,36 €
Central Atlas Tamazight (Latin) - Algeria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fr-FR') as date	200,36 €
Central Atlas Tamazight (Latin) - Algeria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tzm-Latn-DZ') as date	200,36 DA
Central Atlas Tamazight (Tifinagh) - Morocco	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tzm-Tfng-MA') as date	200,36 ⴷⵔ
Central Kurdish (Iraq)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ku-Arab-IQ') as date	د.ع.‏200.36
Cherokee (Cherokee, United States)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'chr-Cher-US') as date	$200.36
Chinese (Simplified, China)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'zh-CN') as date	¥200.36
Chinese - (Traditional, Taiwan)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'zh-TW') as date	NT$200.36
Corsican - France	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'co-FR') as date	200,36 €
Croatian - Bosnia and Herzegovina	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'hr-BA') as date	200,36 KM
Croatian - Croatia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'hr-HR') as date	200,36 kn
Czech - Czech Republic	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'cs-CZ') as date	200,36 Kč
Danish - Denmark	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'da-DK') as date	200,36 kr.
Dari - Afghanistan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'prs-AF') as date	؋200.36
Divehi - Maldives	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'dv-MV') as date	200.36 ރ.
Dutch - Belgium	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'nl-BE') as date	€ 200,36
Dutch - Netherlands	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'nl-NL') as date	€ 200,36
Dzongkha	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'dz-BT') as date	Nu.200.36
English - Australia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-AU') as date	$200.36
English - Belize	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-BZ') as date	$200.36
English - Canada	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-CA') as date	$200.36
English - Caribbean	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-029') as date	EC$200.36
English - India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
English - Ireland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-IE') as date	€200.36
English - Jamaica	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-JM') as date	$200.36
English - Malaysia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-MY') as date	RM200.36
English - New Zealand	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-NZ') as date	$200.36
English - Philippines	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-PH') as date	₱200.36
English - Singapore	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-SG') as date	$200.36
English - South Africa	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-ZA') as date	R200,36
English - Trinidad	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-TT') as date	$200.36
English - Great Britain	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-GB') as date	£200.36
English - United States	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-US') as date	$200.36
English - Zimbabwe	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'en-ZW') as date	US$200.36
Estonian - Estonia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'et-EE') as date	200,36 €
Faroese - Faroe Islands	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fo-FO') as date	200,36 kr
Filipino - Philippines	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fil-PH') as date	₱200.36
Finnish - Finland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fi-FI') as date	200,36 €
French - Belgium	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fr-BE') as date	200,36 €
French - Canada	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fr-CA') as date	200,36 $
French - France	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fr-FR') as date	200,36 €
French - Luxembourg	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fr-LU') as date	200,36 €
French - Monaco	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fr-MC') as date	200,36 €
French - Switzerland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fr-CH') as date	200.36 CHF
Frisian - Netherlands	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fy-NL') as date	€ 200,36
Fulah (Latin, Senegal)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ff-Latn-SN') as date	200,36 CFA
Galician - Galician	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'gl-ES') as date	200,36 €
Georgian - Georgia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ka-GE') as date	200,36 ₾
German - Austria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'de-AT') as date	€ 200,36
German - Germany	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'de-DE') as date	200,36 €
German - Liechtenstein	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'de-LI') as date	CHF 200.36
German - Luxembourg	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'de-LU') as date	200,36 €
German - Switzerland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'de-CH') as date	CHF 200.36
Greek - Greece	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'el-GR') as date	200,36 €
Greenlandic - Greenland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'kl-GL') as date	kr.200,36
Guarani - Paraguay	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'gn-PY') as date	200 ₲
Gujarati - India (Gujarati Script)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'gu-IN') as date	₹200.36
Hausa (Latin) - Nigeria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ha-Latn-NG') as date	₦ 200.36
Hawaiian - United States	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'haw-US') as date	$200.36
Hebrew - Israel	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'he-IL') as date	₪ 200.36
Hindi - India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'hi-IN') as date	₹200.36
Hungarian - Hungary	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'hu-HU') as date	200,36 Ft
Icelandic - Iceland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'is-IS') as date	200 kr
Igbo - Nigeria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ig-NG') as date	₦200.36
Inari Sami - Finland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'smn-FI') as date	200,36 €
Indonesian - Indonesia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'id-ID') as date	Rp200,36
Inuktitut (Latin) - Canada	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'iu-Latn-CA') as date	$200.36
Inuktitut (Syllabics) - Canada	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'iu-Cans-CA') as date	$200.36
Irish - Ireland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ga-IE') as date	€200.36
isiXhosa / Xhosa - South Africa	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'xh-ZA') as date	R200.36
isiZulu / Zulu - South Africa	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'zu-ZA') as date	R200.36
Italian - Italy	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'it-IT') as date	200,36 €
Italian - Switzerland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'it-CH') as date	CHF 200.36
Japanese - Japan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ja-JP') as date	¥200
Javanese (Latin) - Indonesia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'jv-Latn-ID') as date	Rp200
Kannada - India (Kannada Script)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'kn-IN') as date	₹200.36
Kazakh - Kazakhstan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'kk-KZ') as date	200,36 ₸
Khmer - Cambodia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'km-KH') as date	200.36៛
K'iche - Guatemala	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'qut-GT') as date	Q200.36
Kinyarwanda - Rwanda	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'rw-RW') as date	RF 200
Konkani - India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'kok-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
Korean(Extended Wansung) - Korea	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ko-KR') as date	₩200
Kyrgyz - Kyrgyzstan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ky-KG') as date	200,36 сом
Lao - Lao PDR	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'lo-LA') as date	₭200
Latvian - Legacy	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'lv-LV') as date	200,36 €
Latvian - Standard	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'lv-LV') as date	200,36 €
Lithuanian - Lithuania	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'lt-LT') as date	200,36 €
Lower Sorbian - Germany	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'dsb-DE') as date	200,36 €
Lule Sami - Norway	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'smj-NO') as date	kr 200,36
Lule Sami - Sweden	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'smj-SE') as date	200,36 kr
Luxembourgish - Luxembourg	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'lb-LU') as date	200,36 €
Macedonian - F.Y.R.O.M	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mk-MK') as date	200,36 ден
Malay - Brunei	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ms-BN') as date	$ 200,36
Malay - Malaysia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ms-MY') as date	RM200.36
Malayalam - India (Malayalam Script)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ml-IN') as date	₹200.36
Maltese - Malta	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mt-MT') as date	€200.36
Maori - New Zealand	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mi-NZ') as date	$200.36
Mapudungun - Chile	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'arn-CL') as date	$ 200,36
Marathi - India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mr-IN') as date	₹200`36
Mohawk - Mohawk	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'moh-CA') as date	$200.36
Mongolian (Cyrillic) - Mongolia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mn-MN') as date	₮ 200.36
Mongolian (Mongolian) - Mongolia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mn-Mong-MN') as date	₮200.36
Mongolian (Traditional Mongolian – China – Legacy)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mn-Mong-CN') as date	¥200.36
Mongolian (Traditional Mongolian – China – Standard)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'mn-Mong-CN') as date	¥200.36
N'ko – Guinea	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'nqo-GN') as date	ߖߕ. 200.36
Nepali - Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ne-NP') as date	रु 200.36
Northern Sami - Finland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'se-FI') as date	200,36 €
Northern Sami - Norway	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'se-NO') as date	200,36 kr
Northern Sami - Sweden	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'se-SE') as date	200,36 kr
Norwegian - Norway (Bokmål)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'nb-NO') as date	kr 200,36
Norwegian - Norway (Nynorsk)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'nn-NO') as date	200,36 kr
Occitan - France	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'oc-FR') as date	200,36 €
Odia - India (Odia Script)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'or-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
Pashto - Afghanistan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ps-AF') as date	200 ؋
Persian	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'fa-IR') as date	200/36ريال
Polish - Poland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'pl-PL') as date	200,36 zł
Portuguese - Brazil	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'pt-BR') as date	R$ 200,36
Portuguese - Portugal	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'pt-PT') as date	200,36 €
Punjabi - India (Gurmukhi Script)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'pa-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
Punjabi (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'pa-Arab-PK') as date	Rs 200.36
Quechua - Bolivia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'quz-BO') as date	Bs. 200,36
Quechua - Ecuador	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'quz-EC') as date	$ 200,36
Quechua - Peru	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'quz-PE') as date	S/ 200.36
Romanian - Romania	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ro-RO') as date	200,36 lei
Romansh - Switzerland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'rm-CH') as date	200.36 CHF
Russian - Russia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ru-RU') as date	200,36 ₽
Sakha - Russia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sah-RU') as date	200,36 ₽
Sanskrit - India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sa-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
Scottish Gaelic - Great Britain	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'gd-GB') as date	£200.36
Serbian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Cyrillic)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Cyrl-BA') as date	200,36 КМ
Serbian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Latin)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Latn-BA') as date	200,36 KM
Serbian - Montenegro (Cyrillic)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Cyrl-ME') as date	200,36 €
Serbian - Montenegro (Latin)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Latn-ME') as date	200,36 €
Serbian - Serbia (Cyrillic)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Cyrl-RS') as date	200,36 дин.
Serbian - Serbia (Latin)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Latn-RS') as date	200 RSD
Serbian - Serbia and Montenegro (Former) (Cyrillic)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Cyrl-CS') as date	200,36 дин.
Serbian - Serbia and Montenegro (Former) (Latin)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sr-Latn-CS') as date	200,36 din.
Sesotho sa Leboa / Northern Sotho - South Africa	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'nso-ZA') as date	R 200.36
Setswana / Tswana - Botswana	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tn-BW') as date	P200.36
Setswana / Tswana - South Africa	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tn-ZA') as date	R200.36
Shona – Zimbabwe	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sn-Latn-ZW') as date	$200.36
Sindhi (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sd-Arab-PK') as date	Rs 200.36
Sinhala - Sri Lanka	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'si-LK') as date	රු.200.36
Skolt Sami - Finland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sms-FI') as date	200,36 €
Slovak - Slovakia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sk-SK') as date	200,36 €
Slovenian - Slovenia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sl-SI') as date	200,36 €
Southern Sami - Norway	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sma-NO') as date	kr 200,36
Southern Sami - Sweden	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sma-SE') as date	200,36 kr
Spanish - Argentina	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-AR') as date	$ 200,36
Spanish - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-VE') as date	Bs.S200,36
Spanish - Bolivia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-BO') as date	Bs200,36
Spanish - Chile	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-CL') as date	$200
Spanish - Colombia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-CO') as date	$ 200,36
Spanish - Costa Rica	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-CR') as date	₡200,36
Spanish - Dominican Republic	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-DO') as date	$200.36
Spanish - Ecuador	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-EC') as date	$200,36
Spanish - El Salvador	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-SV') as date	$200.36
Spanish - Guatemala	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-GT') as date	Q200.36
Spanish - Honduras	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-HN') as date	L200.36
Spanish - Latin America	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-419') as date	XDR200.36
Spanish - Mexico	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-MX') as date	$200.36
Spanish - Nicaragua	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-NI') as date	C$200.36
Spanish - Panama	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-PA') as date	B/.200.36
Spanish - Paraguay	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-PY') as date	₲ 200
Spanish - Peru	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-PE') as date	S/ 200.36
Spanish - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-PR') as date	$200.36
Spanish - Spain (International Sort)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-ES') as date	200,36 €
Spanish - Spain (Traditional Sort)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-ES_tradnl') as date	200,36 €
Spanish - United States	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-US') as date	$200.36
Spanish - Uruguay	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'es-UY') as date	$ 200,36
Standard Moroccan Tamazight - Morocco	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'zgh-Tfng-MA') as date	200,36MAD
Swahili - Kenya	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sw-KE') as date	Ksh 200.36
Swedish - Finland	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sv-FI') as date	200,36 €
Swedish - Sweden	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'sv-SE') as date	200,36 kr
Syriac - Syria	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'syr-SY') as date	200.36 ܠ.ܣ.‏
Tajik - Tajikistan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tg-Cyrl-TJ') as date	200,36 смн
Tamil - India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ta-IN') as date	₹ 200.36
Tamil - Sri Lanka	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ta-LK') as date	Rs. 200.36
Tatar – Russia (Legacy)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tt-RU') as date	200,36 ₽
Tatar – Russia (Standard)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tt-RU') as date	200,36 ₽
Telugu - India (Telugu Script)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'te-IN') as date	₹200.36
Thai - Thailand	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'th-TH') as date	฿200.36
Tibetan - China	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'bo-CN') as date	¥200.36
Tigrinya (Eritrea)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ti-ET') as date	Br200.36
Tigrinya (Ethiopia)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ti-ET') as date	Br200.36
Turkish - Turkey	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tr-TR') as date	₺200,36
Turkmen - Turkmenistan	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'tk-TM') as date	200,36m.
Ukrainian - Ukraine	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'uk-UA') as date	200,36 ₴
Upper Sorbian - Germany	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'hsb-DE') as date	200,36 €
Urdu – India	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ur-IN') as date	₹200.36
Urdu (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ur-PK') as date	Rs 200.36
Uyghur - China	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ug-CN') as date	¥200.36
Uzbek - Uzbekistan (Cyrillic)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'uz-Cyrl-UZ') as date	200,36 сўм
Uzbek - Uzbekistan (Latin)	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'uz-Latn-UZ') as date	200,36 soʻm
Valencian - Valencia	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ca-ES-valencia') as date	200,36 €
Vietnamese - Vietnam	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'vi-VN') as date	200,36 ₫
Welsh - Great Britain	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'cy-GB') as date	£200.36
Wolof - Senegal	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'wo-SN') as date	200,36 CFA
Yi - China	SELECT FORMAT (200.364, 'c', 'ii-CN') as date	¥200.36

Script to Recreate Currency Format List

The below script will create a temporary table to store the language and language code and then use this to display all of the currency formats for the given value.

CREATE TABLE #temp ([language] nvarchar(100), [langcode] nvarchar(20))
INSERT INTO #temp
VALUES('Afrikaans - South Africa','af-ZA')
,('Albanian - Albania','sq-AL')
,('Alsatian - France','gsw-FR')
,('Amharic - Ethiopia','am-ET')
,('Arabic - Algeria','ar-DZ')
,('Arabic - Bahrain','ar-BH')
,('Arabic - Egypt','ar-EG')
,('Arabic - Iraq','ar-IQ')
,('Arabic - Jordan','ar-JO')
,('Arabic - Kuwait','ar-KW')
,('Arabic - Lebanon','ar-LB')
,('Arabic - Libya','ar-LY')
,('Arabic - Morocco','ar-MA')
,('Arabic - Oman','ar-OM')
,('Arabic - Qatar','ar-QA')
,('Arabic - Saudi Arabia','ar-SA')
,('Arabic - Syria','ar-SY')
,('Arabic - Tunisia','ar-TN')
,('Arabic - U.A.E.','ar-AE')
,('Arabic - Yemen','ar-YE')
,('Armenian - Armenia','hy-AM')
,('Assamese - India','as-IN')
,('Azerbaijani - Azerbaijan (Cyrillic)','az-Cyrl-AZ')
,('Azerbaijani - Azerbaijan (Latin)','az-Latn-AZ')
,('Bangla (Bangladesh)','bn-BD')
,('Bangla - India (Bengali Script)','bn-IN')
,('Bashkir - Russia','ba-RU')
,('Basque - Basque','eu-ES')
,('Belarusian - Belarus','be-BY')
,('Bosnian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Cyrillic)','bs-Cyrl-BA')
,('Bosnian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Latin)','bs-Latn-BA')
,('Breton - France','br-FR')
,('Bulgarian - Bulgaria','bg-BG')
,('Burmese - Myanmar','my-MM')
,('Catalan - Catalan','ca-ES')
,('Central Atlas Tamazight (Latin) - Algeria','fr-FR')
,('Central Atlas Tamazight (Latin) - Algeria','tzm-Latn-DZ')
,('Central Atlas Tamazight (Tifinagh) - Morocco','tzm-Tfng-MA')
,('Central Kurdish (Iraq)','ku-Arab-IQ')
,('Cherokee (Cherokee, United States)','chr-Cher-US')
,('Chinese (Simplified, China)','zh-CN')
,('Chinese - (Traditional, Taiwan)','zh-TW')
,('Corsican - France','co-FR')
,('Croatian - Bosnia and Herzegovina','hr-BA')
,('Croatian - Croatia','hr-HR')
,('Czech - Czech Republic','cs-CZ')
,('Danish - Denmark','da-DK')
,('Dari - Afghanistan','prs-AF')
,('Divehi - Maldives','dv-MV')
,('Dutch - Belgium','nl-BE')
,('Dutch - Netherlands','nl-NL')
,('Dzongkha','dz-BT')
,('English - Australia','en-AU')
,('English - Belize','en-BZ')
,('English - Canada','en-CA')
,('English - Caribbean','en-029')
,('English - India','en-IN')
,('English - Ireland','en-IE')
,('English - Jamaica','en-JM')
,('English - Malaysia','en-MY')
,('English - New Zealand','en-NZ')
,('English - Philippines','en-PH')
,('English - Singapore','en-SG')
,('English - South Africa','en-ZA')
,('English - Trinidad','en-TT')
,('English - Great Britain','en-GB')
,('English - United States','en-US')
,('English - Zimbabwe','en-ZW')
,('Estonian - Estonia','et-EE')
,('Faroese - Faroe Islands','fo-FO')
,('Filipino - Philippines','fil-PH')
,('Finnish - Finland','fi-FI')
,('French - Belgium','fr-BE')
,('French - Canada','fr-CA')
,('French - France','fr-FR')
,('French - Luxembourg','fr-LU')
,('French - Monaco','fr-MC')
,('French - Switzerland','fr-CH')
,('Frisian - Netherlands','fy-NL')
,('Fulah (Latin, Senegal)','ff-Latn-SN')
,('Galician - Galician','gl-ES')
,('Georgian - Georgia','ka-GE')
,('German - Austria','de-AT')
,('German - Germany','de-DE')
,('German - Liechtenstein','de-LI')
,('German - Luxembourg','de-LU')
,('German - Switzerland','de-CH')
,('Greek - Greece','el-GR')
,('Greenlandic - Greenland','kl-GL')
,('Guarani - Paraguay','gn-PY')
,('Gujarati - India (Gujarati Script)','gu-IN')
,('Hausa (Latin) - Nigeria','ha-Latn-NG')
,('Hawaiian - United States','haw-US')
,('Hebrew - Israel','he-IL')
,('Hindi - India','hi-IN')
,('Hungarian - Hungary','hu-HU')
,('Icelandic - Iceland','is-IS')
,('Igbo - Nigeria','ig-NG')
,('Inari Sami - Finland','smn-FI')
,('Indonesian - Indonesia','id-ID')
,('Inuktitut (Latin) - Canada','iu-Latn-CA')
,('Inuktitut (Syllabics) - Canada','iu-Cans-CA')
,('Irish - Ireland','ga-IE')
,('isiXhosa / Xhosa - South Africa','xh-ZA')
,('isiZulu / Zulu - South Africa','zu-ZA')
,('Italian - Italy','it-IT')
,('Italian - Switzerland','it-CH')
,('Japanese - Japan','ja-JP')
,('Javanese (Latin) - Indonesia','jv-Latn-ID')
,('Kannada - India (Kannada Script)','kn-IN')
,('Kazakh - Kazakhstan','kk-KZ')
,('Khmer - Cambodia','km-KH')
,('K''iche - Guatemala','qut-GT')
,('Kinyarwanda - Rwanda','rw-RW')
,('Konkani - India','kok-IN')
,('Korean(Extended Wansung) - Korea','ko-KR')
,('Kyrgyz - Kyrgyzstan','ky-KG')
,('Lao - Lao PDR','lo-LA')
,('Latvian - Legacy','lv-LV')
,('Latvian - Standard','lv-LV')
,('Lithuanian - Lithuania','lt-LT')
,('Lower Sorbian - Germany','dsb-DE')
,('Lule Sami - Norway','smj-NO')
,('Lule Sami - Sweden','smj-SE')
,('Luxembourgish - Luxembourg','lb-LU')
,('Macedonian - F.Y.R.O.M','mk-MK')
,('Malay - Brunei','ms-BN')
,('Malay - Malaysia','ms-MY')
,('Malayalam - India (Malayalam Script)','ml-IN')
,('Maltese - Malta','mt-MT')
,('Maori - New Zealand','mi-NZ')
,('Mapudungun - Chile','arn-CL')
,('Marathi - India','mr-IN')
,('Mohawk - Mohawk','moh-CA')
,('Mongolian (Cyrillic) - Mongolia','mn-MN')
,('Mongolian (Mongolian) - Mongolia','mn-Mong-MN')
,('Mongolian (Traditional Mongolian – China – Legacy)','mn-Mong-CN')
,('Mongolian (Traditional Mongolian – China – Standard)','mn-Mong-CN')
,('N''ko – Guinea','nqo-GN')
,('Nepali - Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal','ne-NP')
,('Northern Sami - Finland','se-FI')
,('Northern Sami - Norway','se-NO')
,('Northern Sami - Sweden','se-SE')
,('Norwegian - Norway (Bokmål)','nb-NO')
,('Norwegian - Norway (Nynorsk)','nn-NO')
,('Occitan - France','oc-FR')
,('Odia - India (Odia Script)','or-IN')
,('Pashto - Afghanistan','ps-AF')
,('Persian','fa-IR')
,('Polish - Poland','pl-PL')
,('Portuguese - Brazil','pt-BR')
,('Portuguese - Portugal','pt-PT')
,('Punjabi - India (Gurmukhi Script)','pa-IN')
,('Punjabi (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)','pa-Arab-PK')
,('Quechua - Bolivia','quz-BO')
,('Quechua - Ecuador','quz-EC')
,('Quechua - Peru','quz-PE')
,('Romanian - Romania','ro-RO')
,('Romansh - Switzerland','rm-CH')
,('Russian - Russia','ru-RU')
,('Sakha - Russia','sah-RU')
,('Sanskrit - India','sa-IN')
,('Scottish Gaelic - Great Britain','gd-GB')
,('Serbian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Cyrillic)','sr-Cyrl-BA')
,('Serbian - Bosnia and Herzegovina (Latin)','sr-Latn-BA')
,('Serbian - Montenegro (Cyrillic)','sr-Cyrl-ME')
,('Serbian - Montenegro (Latin)','sr-Latn-ME')
,('Serbian - Serbia (Cyrillic)','sr-Cyrl-RS')
,('Serbian - Serbia (Latin)','sr-Latn-RS')
,('Serbian - Serbia and Montenegro (Former) (Cyrillic)','sr-Cyrl-CS')
,('Serbian - Serbia and Montenegro (Former) (Latin)','sr-Latn-CS')
,('Sesotho sa Leboa / Northern Sotho - South Africa','nso-ZA')
,('Setswana / Tswana - Botswana','tn-BW')
,('Setswana / Tswana - South Africa','tn-ZA')
,('Shona – Zimbabwe','sn-Latn-ZW')
,('Sindhi (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)','sd-Arab-PK')
,('Sinhala - Sri Lanka','si-LK')
,('Skolt Sami - Finland','sms-FI')
,('Slovak - Slovakia','sk-SK')
,('Slovenian - Slovenia','sl-SI')
,('Southern Sami - Norway','sma-NO')
,('Southern Sami - Sweden','sma-SE')
,('Spanish - Argentina','es-AR')
,('Spanish - Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela','es-VE')
,('Spanish - Bolivia','es-BO')
,('Spanish - Chile','es-CL')
,('Spanish - Colombia','es-CO')
,('Spanish - Costa Rica','es-CR')
,('Spanish - Dominican Republic','es-DO')
,('Spanish - Ecuador','es-EC')
,('Spanish - El Salvador','es-SV')
,('Spanish - Guatemala','es-GT')
,('Spanish - Honduras','es-HN')
,('Spanish - Latin America','es-419')
,('Spanish - Mexico','es-MX')
,('Spanish - Nicaragua','es-NI')
,('Spanish - Panama','es-PA')
,('Spanish - Paraguay','es-PY')
,('Spanish - Peru','es-PE')
,('Spanish - Commonwealth of Puerto Rico','es-PR')
,('Spanish - Spain (International Sort)','es-ES')
,('Spanish - Spain (Traditional Sort)','es-ES_tradnl')
,('Spanish - United States','es-US')
,('Spanish - Uruguay','es-UY')
,('Standard Moroccan Tamazight - Morocco','zgh-Tfng-MA')
,('Swahili - Kenya','sw-KE')
,('Swedish - Finland','sv-FI')
,('Swedish - Sweden','sv-SE')
,('Syriac - Syria','syr-SY')
,('Tajik - Tajikistan','tg-Cyrl-TJ')
,('Tamil - India','ta-IN')
,('Tamil - Sri Lanka','ta-LK')
,('Tatar – Russia (Legacy)','tt-RU')
,('Tatar – Russia (Standard)','tt-RU')
,('Telugu - India (Telugu Script)','te-IN')
,('Thai - Thailand','th-TH')
,('Tibetan - China','bo-CN')
,('Tigrinya (Eritrea)','ti-ET')
,('Tigrinya (Ethiopia)','ti-ET')
,('Turkish - Turkey','tr-TR')
,('Turkmen - Turkmenistan','tk-TM')
,('Ukrainian - Ukraine','uk-UA')
,('Upper Sorbian - Germany','hsb-DE')
,('Urdu – India','ur-IN')
,('Urdu (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)','ur-PK')
,('Uyghur - China','ug-CN')
,('Uzbek - Uzbekistan (Cyrillic)','uz-Cyrl-UZ')
,('Uzbek - Uzbekistan (Latin)','uz-Latn-UZ')
,('Valencian - Valencia','ca-ES-valencia')
,('Vietnamese - Vietnam','vi-VN')
,('Welsh - Great Britain','cy-GB')
,('Wolof - Senegal','wo-SN')
,('Yi - China','ii-CN')


DECLARE @currencyValue decimal = 200.364
SELECT [language], FORMAT (@currencyValue, 'c', [langcode]) as FormattedDate 
FROM #temp

Conclusion

In this article, we saw different examples of functions used to change the output for different currency formats in an MS SQL database.

Note: The FORMAT function uses Common Language Runtime (CLR) and there have been noticeable performance differences between other approaches (CONVERT Function, CAST Function, etc.) showing that FORMAT is much slower.

Next Steps

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Daniel Calbimonte is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP, Microsoft Certified Trainer and 6-time Microsoft Certified IT Professional. Daniel started his career in 2001 and has worked with SQL Server 6.0 to 2022. Daniel is a DBA as well as specializes in Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) technologies.

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Article Last Updated: 2021-11-11

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