Accounting and Database design, storing debit and credit amount

Question

QUESTION: In the case below should I have stored all my amount as positives decimal amounts then flag the amount as either being a \"Debit\" or \"Credit\" rather than storing d

Answer 1

You can use the ABS function within sql server to get the absolute value. This would allow you to treat negative numbers as positive ones.

eg:

select ABS(-100)

returns 100, not -100.