DB2 Columnar Functions- CAST and DECIMAL

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CAST can be used to change the data type of an expression to a different data type or the same data type with a different length, precision, or scale.

SELECT EMPNO, CAST(SALARY AS INTEGER)
FROM   Samples.EMP;

The specified data type if DB2 not supported, DB2 will through an error.

Columnar Functions:

DECIMAL(BONUS) is equal to :-

SELECT EMPNO, CAST(BONUS AS DECIMAL(10,2))
FROM   Samples.EMP;

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