Introduction. This is the first page in a series of pages on Washington special purpose districts. The page discusses the meaning of the term special purpose district and sets out criteria to distinguish special districts with autonomous governing bodies from other types of districts.
verb (used with object), declared, declaring. 1. to make known or state clearly, especially in explicit or formal terms: to declare one's position in a controversy. 2. to announce officially; proclaim: to declare a state of emergency; to declare a winner.
The DECLARE statement initializes a Transact-SQL variable by: 1  Assigning a name. The name must have a single @ as the first character. 2  Assigning a system-supplied or user-defined data type and a length. For numeric variables, a precision and scale are also assigned. 3  Setting the value to .