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baburk
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2009-06-11 : 07:57:42
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| Hi,What is the Difference between DOUBLE, DECIMAL, FLOAT.Which is the best to use in CAST and CONVERT. |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2009-06-11 : 08:02:46
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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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Difference between DOUBLE, DECIMAL, FLOAT.