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SQL Server function to convert length to meters


METERS
 
Updated: 01 December 2008 

Use METERS to convert from fathoms, feet, furlongs, inches, meters, miles, nautical miles, pica, points, or yards to meters.
Syntax
SELECT [westclintech].[wct].[METERS] (
  <@Length, float,>
 ,<@From_scale, nvarchar(4000),>
 ,<@To_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.
 
@To_scale
is the description of the units for that @Length is to be converted into. @To_scale must be a valid value as specified in length unit representations. In addition to grams, @To_scale  can be decimeters, centimeters, millimeters, micrometers, nanometers, picometers, femtometers, attometers, zeptometers, yoctometers, decameters, hectometers, or kilometers .@To_scale must be of a data type that is implicitly convertible to varchar.
 
Return Types
float
Remarks
·         The following table is a representation of the conversion of one of the length units of measure into meters:
inches
0.02540
feet
0.30480
yards
0.91440
meters
1.00000
fathoms
1.82880
furlongs
201.16800
miles
1609.34400
nautical miles
1852.00000
pica
0.004233
points
0.0003528
 
·         Conversion of meters includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.
Example
 
select wct.METERS(100, 'yd', 'km')
Here is the result set
----------------------
0.09144
 
(1 row(s) affected)


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