Petitioner: Employer. The Case. On May 01, 1989, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 decision stating that the case of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins (docket no. 87-1167) should be reversed and remanded and upholding the law in question [Civil Rights Act Of 1964 (Title VII)] as constitutional. The judgment rested on the Court's authority over statutory construction.
Integer Programming (IP) is a very powerful technique for tackling problems which have a mixture of continuous and discrete activities, notably those involving scheduling. Unlike Linear Programming (LP), IP cannot simply be treated as a black box.
Converting Integer Data. When integers are implicitly converted to a character data type, if the integer is too large to fit into the character field, SQL Server enters ASCII character 42, the asterisk (*). Integer constants greater than 2,147,483,647 are converted to the decimal data type, not the bigint data type. The following example shows that when the threshold value is exceeded, the data type of the result changes from an int to a decimal. Here is the result set.