Question

There’s a shortcut to this without having to specify SET all the time right?

So I thought you could combine declaration and assignment like this:

DECLARE @Field1 = 24.00,
        @Field2 = 11.10,
        @Field3  decimal = .50

am I doing this wrong or is it not possible and I must declare the variable and then use SET on every other line?

Answer 1

If you are using SQL Server 2008 this should work:

DECLARE @Field1 decimal = 24.00,
        @Field2 decimal = 11.10,
        @Field3  decimal = .50

Looks like you just left out the type for the first two variables.