SQL Server DRYPINTS Function

Updated 2023-11-09 16:08:23.807000

Description

Use the scalar function DRYPINTS to convert from barrels (US beer barrels), bbl (oil barrel), bushels, cubic feet, cubic inches, cubic meters, cubic miles, cubic yards, cups, dry pints, dry quarts, fluid drams, fluid ounces, gallons, gills, imperial gallons, imperial gills, imperial pints, imperial quarts, liters, pecks, pints, quarts, steres, tablespoons or teaspoons to dry pints.

Syntax

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

Arguments

@Volume

is any real number. @Volume 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 @Volume. @From_scale must be a valid value as specified in volume 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 volume units of measure into dry pints:

Conversion of metric values (liters and cubic meters) includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.

Examples

select wct.DRYPINTS(1, 'quart');

Here is the result set.