Equivalence of UNSIGNED in T-SQL

  • Dear All,

    I'm trying to create a table with an unsigned integer,

    what keyword should I use to create one?

    in Sybase I can use the keyword UNSIGNED but what's the

    equivalence in MS SQL?

    Thanks for your help!

    CY

  • AFAIK there is no UNSIGNED keyword in SQL Server. What are you trying to do?

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  • No good way AFAIK to deal with unsigned data in SQL, unless your only talking a byte....32 bit however, your best bet space allowing would be to go with a bigint to avoid the 2's complimant problems, or you could try to do a computed column.

  • - you might use constraints to limit the numbers so only positive values are allowed.

    - you could use a trigger so negative values are converted to positive values.

    - but why ?

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