SQL Server 2012 :: How To Convert Varchar Value To INT
Apr 25, 2014
I am new to T-SQL development and here's what I am trying to do.
declare @cmd varchar(255)
set @cmd = 'select dbid from sys.sysdatabases where dbid not in (1,2,3,4)'
while (@cmd <=13)
begin
insert into #dbcheck values (@cmd)
Set @cmd = @cmd + 1
end
but it is giving me an error
'Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'select dbid from sys.sysdatabases where dbid not in (1,2,3,4)' to data type int.'
I need my code to add the varchar CPUTM field + varchar CPUZIPTIM field which both has time values to see if greater than 2 hours. How do I do this when both fields are varchar. The value in CPUTM field is 335:55:20.97 duration time. My code is below.
CPUTM = 335:55:20.97 duration time CPUZIPTM = 0:00:01.96 duration time
select * FROM [SMF_DATA].[dbo].[System_Management_Facility] WHERE ((convert(varchar(13), CONVERT(time, CPUTM) + CONVERT(time, CPUZIPTM))) > '02:00:00.00')
Will both statements above access only a single page (as it fits into one page) or does the VARCHAR(MAX) always put its data on a separate page. If so, is the null insert treated differently from the '' insert?
CREATE PROC CLEAR_MY_TABLE @TableStat varchar(30) AS If OBJECT_ID('MyDB.dbo.' + @TableStat + '') is not null BEGIN ---PRINT 'I FOUND THE TABLE' DECLARE @count INT = -1; SELECT @count = (Select COUNT(*) FROM [dbo]. + @TableStat); IF (@count > 0) BEGIN TRUNCATE TABLE @TABLESTAT END
I am using a custom sql query to import data into Tableau. Problem is I need to change the varchar column data in SQL currently returning 18/01/2014 08:35:13 as a format into the date format 05/21/2014 3:55:51 PM before I can use it.
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE name = 'TwoDigitsNumber' AND type = 'FN') DROP FUNCTION MinimumOFThree; GO CREATE FUNCTION TwoDigitsNumber(@a int) RETURNS nvarchar(20)
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The only first letter 'f', 's', 'e' is inserted in value instead 'first', 'second', 'equal'.
Within in Visual Studio 2012 solution, I have several projects, one of which is a Database project. I am defining several tables. The one in question is:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblKppHierarchyPcl] ( [ID] NUMERIC(18,0) NOT NULL, [Name] VARCHAR(500), [PartStructureKey] NUMERIC(18,0) NOT NULL, [PartNumber] VARCHAR(500) NOT NULL, [ParentPartNumber] VARCHAR(500) NULL,
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Error SQL72014: .Net SqlClient Data Provider: Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 76 Conversion.failed when converting the varchar value 'Coolant Quick Disconnect' to data type int.So it has a problem with inserting 'Coolant Quick Disconnect' into the Name column. The Name column is CLEARLY a varchar column but somehow it thinks it's an int column.
declare @xmldoc as xml select @xmldoc = '<Text>This is firstline<Break />This is second line<Break />This is third line</Text>' select @xmldoc.value('(/Text)[1]','varchar(max)')Result is: "This is firstlineThis is second lineThis is third line"
My problem is, that the <Break /> tags within the text are removed in the conversion to varchar. How to preserve the such tags in the varchar output? Or to get the <Break /> tags "translated" to e.g. CHAR(10)?
I know that if I have an nvarchar column I can use an equality like = N'supersqlstring' so it doesn't implicit cast as a varchar, like if I were to do ='supersqlstring'. And then I'll be a big SQL hero and all my stored procedures will run before a millisecond can whisper.
But if I'm comparing an nvarchar column to a varchar column, is it better to cast the varchar 'up' to an nvarchar or cast the nvarchar 'down' to a varchar?
For instance:
cast(a.varchar as nvarchar(100)) = an.nvarchar
or
cast(an.nvarchar as varchar(100)) = a.varchar
Leaving aside non-matching, like (at least I don't think) that SQL considers the varchar n to be equal to the nvarchar ń, what's the best way to handle this?
Pretend for a moment that each column contains a mixed letter and number ID with no accented or wiggly-squiggly Unicode characters; it's just designs clashing.
Is there a performance hitch doing it one way or another? Should I use COLLATE? Should one of the columns be altered?
I have the following code in a SP. The 2 if statements for the @@ Error I added only for testing as I suddenly started get the following error at the 1st @@Error statement
Msg 232, Level 16, State 2, Line Arithmetic overflow error for type varchar, value = 10000.00000.
I cannot have this SP running minutes it must be done in seconds.
I have tried the folloiwng changes but then it takes to long.
I am doing a Case statement to create a unified field for account type and vendor, in the code below I am receiving the error in the subject, because the account numbers have alpha characters in the string, I need to make them as OTHER if the first 2 left chars are Alpha, I thought how I have ISNUMERIC would do that but I am still getting the error.
I am also including example of how the account_numbers are formatted.
I'm trying to convert the query immediately below into a function with the conditional logic to return a VARCHAR value with the gender: male, female or unknown.
SELECT empid, firstname, lastname, titleofcourtesy, CASE WHEN titleofcourtesy IN('Ms.', 'Mrs.') THEN 'Female' WHEN titleofcourtesy = 'Mr.' THEN 'Male' ELSE 'Unknown' END AS gender FROM HR.Employees; GO
Below is the conditional logic function I'm trying to create to replicate the logic above.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Gender ( @male AS VARCHAR(10), @female AS VARCHAR(10), @unknown AS VARCHAR(10) ) RETURNS VARCHAR(10)
Am converting varchar field to float and summing using group by and next inserting to varchar field(table).
while inserting float value it is converting to exponential ex:1.04177e+006 but if i execute only select statment actual float value will get display ex:1041765.726
My question is why it is converting while inserting ? and how to avoid it.
I am trying to run this statement Select Calims, ProCode From Inquiry Where ProCode Between 80000 and 89999
ProCode is a varchar but I am still checking a range on it. It seem to work fine but then there is some invalid data entry in this column for example 'abace' or '100i' so I get the error. 1) how I can exclude them out of my query. Someone suggested the following but I dont understand how do achieve that. thanks
" However, there would appear to be different data types. If Value is a character --based type then you may want to limit the search by first extracting numeric values -- with something like ISNUMERIC(Value) = 1 and then converting them to numerics using --the convert function - CONVERT(int, Value) BETWEEN 10000 and 20000."
how SQL 2012 would treat a literal string for a comparison similar to below. I want to ensure that the server isn't implicitly converting the value as it runs the SQL, so I'd rather change the data type in one of my tables, as unicode isn't required.
Declare @T Table (S varchar(2)) Declare @S nvarchar(255) Insert into @T Values ('AR'), ('AT'), ('AW') Set @S = 'Auto Repairs' Select * from @T T where case @S when 'Auto Repairs' then 'AR' when 'Auto Target' then 'AT' when 'Auto Wash' then 'AW' end = T.STo summarise
in the above would AR, AT and AW in the case statement be treated as a nvarchar, as that's the field the case is wrapped around, or would it be treated as a varchar, as that's what I'm comparing it to.
I'm trying to find a specific string (a name) and replace it with another inside of a VARCHAR(7000) field. Unfortunately, there are names like Ted and Ken that I'm trying to replace. I would like to leave words like Broken, admitted, etc... intact.
UPDATEtbl SETBody = LEFT(REPLACE(tbl.Body, pm.OldFirstName, p.FirstName), 7000) FROM Table tbl JOIN Person p ON p.PersonID = tbl.PersonID JOIN PersonMap pm ON pm.PersonID = p.PersonID AND LEN(pm.OldFirstName) > 2 WHEREtbl.Body LIKE '%[^a-z]'+pm.OldFirstName+'[., ]%
'The problem I'm running into is that the '[, ]%' in the LIKE excludes any record that ends with the FirstName because it is requiring either a space, comma or period after the name. Is there some way to add an empty string to the list of acceptable characters as that would cover any scenario in the data? I would prefer not to add all characters except space, comma and period, but I guess I could do that.
I have log files that I am loading into a table with duration data in the format "xx hrs xx min xx sec". Only the parts that are required will be there so if duration is only 2 seconds , the column will show "2 sec".
I am trying to get the duration into in to do some analysis on it and I have come up with this query so far which returns the correct data but i am wondering if there is a way to do what I am trying in a more readable format.
CREATE TABLE #tmp(duration VARCHAR(20))
INSERT INTO #tmp VALUES ('1 hrs 20 min 12 sec'), --4812 sec ('48 sec'), --48 sec ('39 min 1 sec'), --2341 sec ('11 hrs 1 min 1 sec'), --39661 sec ('59 min 0 sec'), --3540 sec ('2 min 50 sec') --170 sec
In VBA, CLng(Now) will return the integer portion of a date CLng(Now) returns 41928, CDate(41928) then returns 10/16/2014. Is there something equivalent in SQL Server that will allow me to convert an integer value to a date?
In short, how can I convert a 100 year date to Gregorian (any format)?
How do I use the CAST or CONVERT function in the code below, I require a third column (named Diff) which Minus the StartTime from the EndTime and the result is outputted in the third column (named Diff).
Calculation: @Diff = (@EndTime - @StartTime)
I still want the variables (@StartTime and @EndTime) to remain as nvarchar.
The code:
DECLARE @StartTime nvarchar(10) = '12:10'; DECLARE @EndTime nvarchar(10) = '12:30'; DECLARE @Diff time(1) = '00:00'; SELECT @StartTime AS '@StartTime', @EndTime AS '@EndTimes', @Diff AS '@Diff';
Hi all iam trying to but a varchar variable into a TEXT var but i get this error "The assignment operator operation cannot take a text data type as an argument"
Hi: I have a column call Date_Sent (28/02/2004)(dd/mm/yyyy) format as varchar at beginning. I want to convert to other column as datetime. I use Query like: SELECT CAST(SUBSTRING(Date_Sent,1,2)as int) + '/' +CAST(SUBSTRING(date_sent,4,2) as int) + '/' +CAST(SUBSTRING(DATE_SENT,7,4) as int) From MyTable It is not working, anybody can give me some advise! thanks!
hi i want to insert the varchar value inter column, how can i convert the values and insert in to the record if i give direct column name i am getting a message insert into EMP(id) SELECT name from STU
i am getting a message like this Syntax error converting the varchar value '200.00' to a column of data type int.
I am using a varchar datatype for PIN number to handle zero at start. Now i want to do mathematical calculation to encrypt the PIN so i need to convert that varchar datatype to int so that zero should not be discarted after conversion. i.e. 0123 and 123 must not be treated as same PIN.
Please kindly give me a way out. I am using RSA encryption.
Using SQL 2005. I have a field with dollar amounts but field type is VarChar. Need to convert to number to sum. What's the best way to do this or how can I sum a field type Varchar that has dollar amounts. Thank you, David
