A nonnumeric arg is converted to a numeric value, based on implicit type conversion rules. If the argument cannot be converted, an error is reported.See Data Type Conversions.
If arg is a character string, the value is converted to a numeric value of FLOAT data type.
NULLIFZERO cannot be applied to the following types of arguments:
- BYTE or VARBYTE
- BLOB or CLOB
- CHARACTER or VARCHAR if the server character set is GRAPHIC