Specify negative and positive numbers

doesn’t enforce any kind of grouping rules such as inserting a comma (

) every

three digits in strings that represent money.

The following are examples of

constants:

text

constants are a string representing a GUID. They can be specified in either a

character or binary string format.

The following examples both specify the same GUID:

text

To indicate whether a number is positive or negative, apply the

or

unary operators to a

numeric constant. This creates a numeric expression that represents the signed numeric value.

Numeric constants use positive when the

or

unary operators aren’t applied.

Signed

expressions:

text

Signed

expressions:

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Note

Commas are ignored anywhere in a string literal that is cast to the

data type.

,

+

-

+

-

$12
$542023.14
$-23

'6F9619FF-8B86-D011-B42D-00C04FC964FF'
0xff19966f868b11d0b42d00c04fc964ff

+145345234
-2147483648