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 Difference between DOUBLE, DECIMAL, FLOAT.

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baburk
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108 Posts

Posted - 2009-06-11 : 07:57:42
Hi,

What is the Difference between DOUBLE, DECIMAL, FLOAT.

Which is the best to use in CAST and CONVERT.

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2009-06-11 : 08:02:46
CAST seems to be somewhat faster but offers less options.
CONVERT has a lot of options.

DOUBLE is a .Net datatype which equivalent is FLOAT in T-SQL.
DECIMAL is an exact datatype supported by T-SQL.

If you want to know more, please read Books Online about datatypes, cast and convert.



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