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For example, the number 123.45 has a precision of 5 and a scale of 2. In SQL Server, the default maximum precision of numeric and decimal data types is 38. In earlier versions of SQL Server, the ...

SQL imposes some restrictions on referencing long-string columns. For more information about these restrictions, see your IBM documentation. specifies a varying-length column for character string data ...

My post earlier this year on enabling query folding when using SQL queries as a data source in Power Query provoked a lot of interest. This post adds one more useful detail: how to preserve the ...

For example, an Oracle Rdb SQL date might not fall in the valid SAS date range. DBLOAD Procedure Data Conversions The following table shows the default Oracle Rdb data types that the DBLOAD procedure ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency. NoSQL does away with them for the sake of speed, flexibility, and scale. One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing ...

It’s surprisingly easy to stop query folding happening in Power Query by changing the data type of a column. This is mentioned in the docs here, and it’s something several people have blogged about ...