SQL is a widely-used programming language for computer databases in business. Frequently, software developers need to combine different kinds of data, such as integer and character fields, into a ...

FUND COMPANIES NOW HAVE more time to wind down mutual funds’ and exchange-traded funds’ (ETFs) character-conversion transactions. Ottawa announced its plans to end these transactions – which create a ...

Office Q&A: Disappearing macro buttons and mysterious character conversion Your email has been sent Learn how to keep an Excel macro button in sight and how to intervene when Word converts characters ...

Montreal-based Desjardins Investments said Wednesday it is reviewing the proposed character conversion changes in the federal budget to determine the potential impact they could have on Desjardins ...

Yesterday we reported on an issue affecting Microsoft Word documents created under Office XP and then opened in Office v.X for Mac OS X. Some characters, such as compact fractions, cannot be ...

Responses by mutual fund companies to the recent decision made by the federal government to limit character conversion transactions — transactions that use a forward contract to generate low-tax ...

Bloom Investment Counsel—which manages the Bloom U.S. Advantaged Income & Growth Fund—has been affected by the 2013 Budget, and it may not be the only company. This is because measures are being ...

Mikhail Filitov, 64, is a civil servant planning to retire in a year. He’s widowed and only needs to support himself. His pension will cover basic expenses, but he also has a conservatively invested ...

The Toronto-headquartered law firm Torys has weighed in on so-called character conversion transactions, one of the tax changes made in the recent federal budget. According to the budget, the proposed ...

If you use a character variable with an operator that requires numeric operands, such as the plus sign, SAS converts the character variable to numeric. If you use a comparison operator, such as the ...