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SQL Server FEET Function

Updated 2023-11-09 14:07:39.370000

Description

Use the scalar function FEET to convert from fathoms, feet, furlongs, inches, meters, miles, nautical miles, pica, points or yards to feet.

Syntax

SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[FEET] (
  <@Length, float,>
 ,<@From_scale, nvarchar(4000),>)

Arguments

@Length

is any real number. @Length is an expression of type float or of a type that can be implicitly converted to float.

@From_scale

is the description of the units for @Length. @From_scale must be a valid value as specified in length unit representations. @From_scale must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.

Return Type

float

Remarks

The following table is a representation of the conversion of one of the length units of measure into feet:

column 1column 2
inches0.0833333333
feet1.0000000000
yards3.0000000000
meters3.2808399000
fathoms6.0000000000
furlongs660.0000000000
miles5280.0000000000
nautical miles6076.1154900000
pica0.0138888889
points0.0011574

Conversion of meters includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.

Examples

select wct.FEET(100, 'yd');

Here is the result set.

column 1
300