Formatting an SQL numeric query result with an arbitrary number of decimal places

Question

I have a database table with these two columns:

• Amount: numeric (18,0)
• DecimalPlaces: numeric (18,0)

This table can store amounts in va

Answer 1

In SQL server you can :

select stuff(convert(varchar,amount) ,
         len(convert(varchar,amount)) - DecimalPlaces - 1, 0, ".")