Jun 29, 2009 · The parameter supplied to the float data type defines the number of bits that are used to store the mantissa of the floating point number. Approximate Numeric Data Type …

What's the difference between the SQL datatype NUMERIC and DECIMAL ? If databases treat these differently, I'd like to know how for at least: SQL Server Oracle Db/2 MySQL …

As a numeric the allowable range that can be stored in that field is -10^38 +1 to 10^38 - 1. The first number in parentheses is the total number of digits that will be stored. Counting both sides …

I have a column in sql which is sometimes nvarchar and number in some cases. The column has a datatype nvarchar . I am just interested in the places where its numeric where none numeric …

One of your expressions needs to be casted/converted to an int in order for this to go through, which is the meaning of Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

The example quoted by would have a precision of 7 and a scale of 2. Moreover, DECIMAL (precision, scale) is an exact value data type unlike something like a FLOAT (precision, scale) …

Aug 26, 2011 · SQL Server handles the storage of the data differently between CHAR and VARCHAR. SQL Server’s BOL (Books On Line) says : Use CHAR when the size of the …

Select Cast(Data as bigint) From @Temp Where IsNumeric(Data) = 1 And Data Is Not NULL There is a trick you can use with IsNumeric so that it returns 0 for numbers with scientific …

Lets see, numeric (3,2). That means you have 3 places for data and two of them are to the right of the decimal leaving only one to the left of the decimal. 15 has two places to the left of the …

SQL Server and the .NET Framework are based on different type systems. For example, the .NET Framework Decimal structure has a maximum scale of 28, whereas the SQL Server decimal …