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Asked: 2026-05-13T11:46:58+00:00

I remember reading about quoting stuff when doing a SQL query and that when

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I remember reading about quoting stuff when doing a SQL query and that when you quote something, it becomes a string. I also read that numbers should not be quoted. Now, I can’t find that quotation and I need to refresh my memory to see if I should quote numbers.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You should not quote numbers if you want to treat them as numbers.

    You’re correct by remembering that it makes it a string.

    SELECT 10 AS x

    is perfectly legal and will return (in most database engines) a column of datatype int (or a variation thereof.)

    If you do this:

    SELECT '10' AS x

    instead you’ll get a textual data type. This might too be suitable in some cases, but you need to decide whether you want the result as text or as a number.

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