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.
When declaring a variable, you can specify a default value using the DEFAULT clause as in line (1). Line (2) shows the declaration of a variable of the Boolean data type with a default value of FALSE. Line (3) shows that a SET statement can be used to assign a single variable value. Variables can also be set by executing a SELECT or FETCH statement in combination with the INTO clause as shown in line (4).