Manipulating distinct types
Once you define distinct types and create tables based upon them, you can begin manipulating actual distinctly typed values.
Procedure
To implement various kinds of distinct type manipulation:
- Casting between distinct types
- Performing comparisons involving distinct types
- Performing comparisons between distinct types and constants
- Defining sourced UDFs for distinct types
- Performing assignments involving distinct types in embedded SQL
- Performing assignments involving distinct types in dynamic SQL
- Performing assignments involving different distinct types
- Performing UNION operations on distinctly typed columns