Not all of the primitives are listed here; for the complete list, see “Primitive data types."
mySalary DECIMAL(9,2) = 30000.00;
speedOfLight FLOAT = 299800000; speedOfLight FLOAT = 2.998e8;Here 2.998e8 means 2.998 x 108.
myUSState STRING(2) = "TX";When you assign a STRING value, you place it inside double quotes.
For variables that are based on any of these date and time types, you can specify formats for input and output. For more information, see “Date/time masks and format specifiers.”