Categories:
.NET (357)
C (330)
C++ (183)
CSS (84)
DBA (2)
General (7)
HTML (4)
Java (574)
JavaScript (106)
JSP (66)
Oracle (114)
Perl (46)
Perl (1)
PHP (1)
PL/SQL (1)
RSS (51)
Software QA (13)
SQL Server (1)
Windows (1)
XHTML (173)
Other Resources:
How To Convert Character Strings to Numeric Values
How To Convert Character Strings to Numeric Values? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics
✍: FYIcenter.com
You can convert character strings to numeric values by using the CAST(string AS DECIMAL) or CAST(string AS SIGNED INTEGER) function as shown in the following examples:
SELECT CAST('4123.45700' AS DECIMAL) FROM DUAL; 4123.46 -- Very poor conversion SELECT CAST('4.12345700e+3' AS DECIMAL) FROM DUAL; 4123.46 -- Very poor conversion SELECT CAST('4123.45700' AS SIGNED INTEGER) FROM DUAL; 4123 SELECT CAST('4.12345700e+3' AS SIGNED INTEGER) FROM DUAL; 4 -- Very poor conversion
2007-05-11, 4732👍, 0💬
Popular Posts:
How To Run a JUnit Test Class? A JUnit test class usually contains a number of test methods. You can...
How To Export Data to an XML File? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Introduction to Oracle SQL Developer If you wa...
What Is the Data Pump Import Utility? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Loading and Exporting Data Oracle Data Pump...
Explain simple Walk through of XmlReader ? In this section we will do a simple walkthrough of how to...
What are the different accessibility levels defined in .NET ? Following are the five levels of acces...