I'm using pyodbc 3.0.6, OS X 10.8, system iODBC, FreeTDS 0.91. Connecting to a SQL Server database, attempting to select a single row in a table that contains a column of type decimal(18,2), ...

SQL Server datatypes are not always what they seem to be. [Martin Schmidt](http://www.performanceduo.com/) recently had an [interesting blog post (in danish)](http ...