HECTARES

Updated 2023-11-08 20:54:10.300000

Syntax

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

Description

Use the scalar function HECTARES to convert from acres, hectares, square feet, square inches, square meters, square miles, or square yards to hectares.

Arguments

@Area

is any real number. @Area 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 @Area. @From_scale must be a valid value as specified in area 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 area units of measure into hectares;

{"columns":[{"field":"column 1"},{"field":"column 2","headerClass":"ag-right-aligned-header","cellClass":"ag-right-aligned-cell"}],"rows":[{"column 1":"acres","column 2":"0.404685642"},{"column 1":"square inches","column 2":"6.4516E-08"},{"column 1":"square feet","column 2":"9.2903E-06"},{"column 1":"square yards","column 2":"8.36127E-05"},{"column 1":"square miles","column 2":"258.999811"},{"column 1":"square meters","column 2":"0.0001"},{"column 1":"hectares","column 2":"1"}]}

Conversion of meters includes all the standard prefixes with kilo representing 1,000 and yocto representing 10E-24.

Examples

select wct.HECTARES(100, 'yd^2');

Here is the result set.

{"columns":[{"field":"column 1","headerClass":"ag-right-aligned-header","cellClass":"ag-right-aligned-cell"}],"rows":[{"column 1":"0.0083612736"}]}