What was the rationale behind the Money datatype? [duplicate]

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Should you choose the MONEY or DECIMAL(x,y) datatypes in SQL Server?

I can't see why you would use the money datatype over decimal, apart from stripping currency symbols, it seems equivalent to a decimal with a scale of 4.

Am I missing something?

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Update: What was the rationale behind introducing Money datatype? Rather that arguing about whether you should divide money by money which is what the other question seemed to boil down to.

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"Syntactic sugar about stripping currency symbols"? - SQL Server doesn't store currency symbols. And it has nothing to do with a compiler doing fancy compile time tricks, which is what "syntactic sugar" refers to. The decimal type is a precise data type and money is not, beyond four decimal places or so. It depends on your needs. You probably can't go wrong just using a decimal type.