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SQL Server INCHES Function

Updated 2023-11-09 14:09:54.877000

Description

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

Syntax

SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[INCHES] (
  <@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 inches:

column 1column 2
inches1.0000000
feet12.0000000
yards36.0000000
meters39.3700787
fathoms72.0000000
furlongs7920.0000000
miles63360.0000000
nautical miles72913.3858000
pica0.1666667
points0.0138889

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

Examples

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

Here is the result set.

column 1
3600