After confirming with the SQL Server DBA that a CLR function would be permitted on the production SQL Server, I wrote the function that appears in Listing 1. You'll notice it uses the Microsoft.Net ...

Kinds of Functions Used in Excel. Microsoft's Excel program, widely used in business, comes with many built-in functions that perform mathematical and logical operations on spreadsheet data.

The issue of numeric precision affects the return values of almost all SAS System math functions and many numeric values returned from SAS System procedures. Numeric values in the SAS System for UNIX ...

The ISNUMERIC function returns 1 (true) for all the values inserted into @TestTable, yet only the first value of '12.37' can be successfully converted to Decimal via the CAST function.