I need immediate help with a query that I am trying to write. I want to sum the values in a query but the field has a type of varchar and it has decimal numbers too. So if I do the query something like that, that converts the field to int, I get the error message.
I tried converting it into real or float but I get error message on that too. I need help with adding the calculatedValues and getting there sum. I would appreciate any help with that.
Thanks
-Sarah
Select SUM(Convert(int, calculatedValue))
from monitor.dbo.monHistory
where LocalTimeWithoutDst > '8/26/06' and LocalTimeWithoutDst < '8/28/06'
This is the error message I recieve:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '274.2' to data type int.
I am trying to setup an indicator value for an SSRS report to show green and red values on a report, based on the NRESULT value. The problem I am facing is that I have several different CASE statements that have the same logic, and they are processing just fine. NRESULT is a decimal field, so no conversion should be necessary. I do not know why I am getting the "Arithmetic overflow error converting varchar to data type numeric." error message.
Below is the CASE statement where the error is occurring. It is in the part of the ELSE CASE. The first CASE works just fine when the ELSE CASE is commented out. If I also change the ELSE CASE statement to say "else case when LEFT(NRESULT,1) = '-' then '0'", then it processes fine, too, so it has to be something I am missing something in the check on negative values. I do need the two checks, one for positive and one for negative values, to take place.
case when LEFT(NRESULT,1) <> '-' then --This portion, for checking positive values, of the CASE statement works fine. CASE WHEN LEFT(ROUND(NRESULT,2),4) between 0.00 and 0.49 THEN '2' --Green ELSE CASE WHEN LEFT(ROUND(NRESULT,2),4) > 0.49 THEN '0' --Red ELSE '3' --White END END else case when LEFT(NRESULT,1) = '-' then --This portion, for checking negative values, of the CASE statement is producing the conversion error message.
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I checked the NRESULT field, and there are not any NULL values in there, either.
I have a table with a column that is currently a varchar(50), but I want to convert it into an int. When I try to just change the type in design mode I get an error that conversion cannot proceed. When I look at the field it appears some of the entries have special characters appended at the end, I see a box after the value.
How can I remove all speical characters and then convert that field to an int?
Also I tried the following query which did not work as well, same error about conversion.
I am trying to drag data from Informix to Sql Server. When I kick off the package using an OLE DB Source and a SQL Server Destination, I get DT_DBDATE to DT_DBTIMESTAMP errors on two fields from Informix which are date data ....no timestamp part
I tried a couple of things:
Created a view of the Informix table where I cast the date fields as datetime year to fraction(5), which failed.
Altered the view to convert the date fields to char(10) with the hopes that SQL Server would implicitly cast them as datetime but it failed.
I encounter this particular error. Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The data types varchar and text are incompatible in the equal to operator. Line 21: Dim reader As SqlDataReader = command.ExecuteReader() This is the first time I'm trying out with MS SQL so I'm abit lost. I hope my code is correct and I've did a little search. I did not set "Text" in my database, I use int and varchar. Here's the affected part of my code and the database. Dim password As String = "" Dim querystring As String = "SELECT Password FROM Member WHERE Username = @username"
'Dim conn as SqlConnection Using conn As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("mainconnect").ConnectionString) Dim command As New SqlCommand(querystring, conn) command.Parameters.Add("@username", SqlDbType.Text) command.Parameters("@username").Value = txtLogin.Text conn.Open()
Dim reader As SqlDataReader = command.ExecuteReader() While reader.Read() password = reader("Password").ToString() End While
reader.Close()
End Using
My database: User_ID int(4) Username varchar(50) Password varchar(255) Email varchar(50)
I have a varchar field which holds IDs like (1, 3, 5, 19, 23) when I order it, i get it ordered in ASCII order like (1, 19, 23, 3, 5) rather than (1, 3, 5, 19, 23) Even if I convert it to int, I won't be able to order it.
is there any way I can order a varchar field numerically?
I write using the SQL ODBC driver from software into a SLQ table called UPSSHIPMENT the format is as followed: JobNumber varchar 50 Weight real 4 FreightCost varchar 8 TrackingNumber varchar 50 Shipmethod varchar 50 VOIDID varchar 3
I then have a trigger set to update the PACKAGE table as followed CREATE TRIGGER [UPS] ON dbo.UPSSHIPMENT FOR INSERT
AS
BEGIN UPDATE PACKAGE SET WEIGHT = inserted.WEIGHT, FREIGHTCOST = inserted.FREIGHTCOST, TRACKINGNUMBER = inserted.TRACKINGNUMBER, COMMENTS = inserted.SHIPMETHOD FROM PACKAGE INNER JOIN inserted on PACKAGE.JOBNUMBER = inserted.JOBNUMBER WHERE inserted.VOIDID = 'N'
UPDATE PACKAGE SET WEIGHT = '', FREIGHTCOST = '0.00', TRACKINGNUMBER = '', COMMENTS = 'UPS VOID' FROM PACKAGE INNER JOIN inserted on PACKAGE.JOBNUMBER = inserted.JOBNUMBER WHERE inserted.VOIDID = 'Y'
END
The format of the PACKAGE table is as followed Jobnumber varchar 50 FreightCost money 8 TrackingNumber varchar 50 Comments varchar 2000 Weight real 4
I am getting the following error --------------------------- Microsoft SQL-DMO (ODBC SQLState: 42000) --------------------------- Error 260: Disallowed implicit conversion from data type varchar to data type money, table 'TESTing.dbo.Package', column 'FreightCost'. Use the CONVERT function to run this query. --------------------------- OK ---------------------------
How do you use the convert function to change the data before the update? Thank You! :mad:
I am parsing a documnet and i am grabbing that document into a variable of datatype varchar. The document contains more than 8k(upto 30k characters) characters. So how can I handle this situation.How can I get that document into my local varchar variable.
declare @found int; set @found = 'select sid from StickyContent where StickyId='+0+' and UserId='+171 exec (@found) delete from StickyContent where sid = @found
I need to pass this statement from my UI i.e in a single query. I am getting this error.
"Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'select sid from StickyContent where StickyId=' to data type int. "
Current development setup: Visual Studio 2005 (C# language), SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
I am at this point changing some of my application. It stores a lot of information for times of trains. I decode a file which is text based and my times are stored in varchar(4) columns with the format "HHmm".
I am now at a stage where I need to add values to these times and perform a search based on two time values (a minimum time and maximum time).
I really need to be able to add another varchar(4) value to the times stored in my database (also varchar(4) - may look at this again in future). I have absolutely no interest in storing seconds, modifying the database to include the time colon, nor am I interested in the date portion of a time string, only the 4 digits representing the hours and minutes.
Can this be done easily in SQL server? For example:
varchar(4) of 0445 + varchar(4) of 0027 should result in the time 0512.
Similarly a varchar(4) of 2358 + varchar(4) of 0015 should result in the time 0013.
can anyone see as to why I would get this error with the following SP? ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[SP] @ID int = 0, @emailFrom VARCHAR(50) = Null, @emailDate VARCHAR(50) = Null, @emailSubj VARCHAR(50) = Null, @emailTxtBody VARCHAR(1000) = Null, @emailHtmlBody VARCHAR(1000) = Null
AS -- SET NOCOUNT ON added to prevent extra result sets from -- interfering with SELECT statements. SET NOCOUNT ON;
DECLARE @Notes VARCHAR (8000) DECLARE @TicketID INT DECLARE @emailBody VARCHAR (1000) DECLARE @Length Int
SET @Notes = '' SET @Length = LEN(@emailSubj)
-- insert a new entry INSERT INTO PopEmail ( emailFrom, emailDate, emailSubj, emailTxtBody, emailHtmlBody ) VALUES ( @emailFrom, @emailDate, @emailSubj, @emailTxtBody, @emailHtmlBody ) -- get the new ID SET @ID = @@identity
If ( @ID <> 0 ) AND ( ISNUMERIC(@emailSubj) = 1 )
Begin IF @emailTxtBody IS NULL BEGIN Set @emailBody = @emailHtmlBody PRINT '@emailHtmlBody: ' + @emailBody END
ELSE
BEGIN SET @emailBody = @emailTxtBody PRINT '@emailTxtBody: ' + @emailBody END
SET @TicketID = CAST( @emailSubj AS int ) SET @Notes = @emailFrom + ', ' + @emailDate + ', ' + @emailBody Select @ID = ID From TicketDetails Where TicketDetails.TicketID = @TicketID
Exec differentSP @ID, @TicketID, @Notes
PRINT 'Subject: [' + @emailSubj + ']' print 'length: ' + CAST(@Length as varchar (10)) Print 'emailSubj: ' + CAST( @emailSubj AS int ) PRINT 'ID: ' + Cast( @ID as varchar ( 10 ) ) PRINT 'TicketID: ' + Cast( @TicketID AS Varchar ( 10 ) ) PRINT 'Notes: ' + @Notes PRINT 'ID: ' + Cast( @ID as varchar ( 10 ) ) END ELSE
BEGIN Print 'ID: ' + CAST(@ID AS VarChar(10)) PRINT 'ISNUMERIC: ' + CAST(ISNUMERIC(@emailSubj) AS VarChar (10)) PRINT 'Subject: [' + @emailSubj + ']' END
How do you set the type to varChar like this using markup (xml tags in the .aspx page)? If I were creating a SQLDataSource control declaratively and one of the parameters needed to be set to VarChar rather than just a string I would set a parameter type to varchar using this syntax: myAdapter.UpdateCommand.Paramters.Add("@Title", SqlDbType.VarChar, 80, "Title"); SQLDataSource control as a default will create parameters as strings even though the table it is pointing to has type varchar in it such as below: <asp:Parameter Name="Title" Type="String" /> If I leave it like that, I get the following error below (as expected) since it really needs to be type SqlDbType.VarChar "The data types text and nvarchar are incompatible in the equal to operator" Below is example default markup the SqlDataSource control creates with an update. Where in this markup should I change things so it will update correctly to varchar rather than just trying to throw a string in the table? <asp:SqlDataSource ID="IISLearning_Content_SqlDataSource" runat="server" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:IISLearningConnectionString %>" SelectCommand=""></asp:SqlDataSource> <asp:SqlDataSource ID="MySqlDataSource" runat="server" ConflictDetection="CompareAllValues" ConnectionString="<%$ ConnectionStrings:MyConnectionString %>" OldValuesParameterFormatString="original_{0}" SelectCommand="SELECT * FROM [MyTable]" UpdateCommand="UPDATE [MyTable] SET [Title] = @Title WHERE [ID] = @original_ID AND [Title] = @original_Title"> <UpdateParameters> <asp:Parameter Name="Title" Type="String" /> <asp:Parameter Name="original_ID" Type="Int32" /> <asp:Parameter Name="original_Title" Type="String" /> </UpdateParameters> </asp:SqlDataSource>
I have a table with a column (locationID) of int data type, I want to pass a list of locationID's to a stored procedure using the IN operator (e.g. WHERE LocationID IN (list of locationID's)). What can I do to achieve this????
My stored procedure looks like this:
CREATE PROCEDURE [sp_test] @sLocIDs varchar(30) AS select count(distinct TimeZoneID) As timezones, from dimLocation WHERE LocationID IN (@sLocIDs)
When I test it: exec sp_test @sLocIDs = '1,2,10' I get "Error converting data type varchar to int"
In my table I am using varchar to save a date like this 2-dec-2011. Now I have a requirement where i need to select employee who where present in a month so for that I need a query so that i can pull out all the employees who are present in dec like :
Code: select * from emp_attendence where date = 'dec-2011'
I have a DB named zCIFRecord with a column named CIFUpdateDate which is of datatype varchar. The data is a date MM/DD/YYYY 01/30/2008, this is al that is in this column. I can search this colum for individual dates and for a range of dates. My problem is with a range of dates that is not within the same year, such as;
SELECT [CIFPan]
,[CIFMemNum]
,[CIFLName]
,[CIFFName]
FROM [FutureSoft].[dbo].[zCIFRecord]
WHERE [CIFUpdateDate] between '12/01/2007' and '01/30/2008'
will return nothing because it seems to only search on the 12 then the 01 then the 2008. this search can be performed properly on dates within the same year such as;
SELECT [CIFPan]
,[CIFMemNum]
,[CIFLName]
,[CIFFName]
FROM [FutureSoft].[dbo].[zCIFRecord]
WHERE [CIFUpdateDate] between '01/01/2008' and '01/30/2008'
will return the proper values because now all the numbers are in correct order. How can i create a search that lets me perform the first query as well as the second query. I tried to convert to a float but you cant convert a varchar to a float.
I inserted a record in table on DB created on SQLServer 2005 and found out that the one of the column values is shown as '??????' instead of showing the encrypted value that I sent with the insert statement.3
............................ Can anyone tell me how to get rid of this?
Hi, It is not exactly what I stated in the subject - It's an outcome - exception thrown while executing non-query command. I get this exception when I try to execute my stored procedure that takes datetime as one of its parameters. I am using dataset designer to create table adapters and build queries. Then I simply use objectdatasource component that uses one of the table adapters and bind it to for example a detailsview control. When I run this in debug mode and trace the objects everything looks perfect including these datetime parameters. It is sql server that throws the exception. I ran the sql profiler to see what exactly is going on, and I captured the command that is sent by ADO - it's broken into several lines right in the middle of my datetime parameters... this is the source of the problem. Everything is working fine when I take this command and execute it as a single line in the sql management studio. Is there anything about ADO that I do not know?
I have the following query which has been giving me headaches for days : SELECT SCCode [Service Catalog Code], FileName [File Name], FullName [Full Name], FileExtension [Extension], FileSize [Size], Author [Author], CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),CAST(LastModified AS SMALLDATETIME), 120) [Last Modified], CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),CAST(LastAccessed AS SMALLDATETIME), 120) [Last Accessed], TimesAccessed [Downloads], UploadedBy [Uploaded By], CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),CAST(UploadedAt AS SMALLDATETIME), 120) [Uploaded At] FROM #TempTable WHERE id > @firstitem AND id < @lastitem ORDER BY CASE WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Service Catalog Code' THEN SCCode WHEN @sortcolumn = 'File Name' THEN FileName WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Extension' THEN FileExtension WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Size' THEN FileSize WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Author' THEN Author WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Last Modified' THEN CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),CAST(LastModified AS SMALLDATETIME), 120) WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Last Accessed' THEN CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),CAST(LastAccessed AS SMALLDATETIME), 120) WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Downloads' THEN TimesAccessed WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Uploaded By' THEN UploadedBy WHEN @sortcolumn = 'Uploaded At' THEN CONVERT(VARCHAR(50),CAST(UploadedAt AS SMALLDATETIME), 120) END ASCWhen my @sortcolumn parameter is either FileSize (BIGINT) or TimesAccessed (BIGINT) then the query returns the data without any problem. However, if I use a different @sortcolumn value such as "Author" then I keep getting "Error converting data type varchar to bigint."A solution that seems to work is to drop CASE and use lots of IF statements instead. I don't prefer to do this because it requires me to repeat the same select statement for each and every possible @sortcolumn value!Does anyone know how to solve this? Help!
set @Beg_tentdte = convert(varchar(10), @b_trn_tendte_Beg_Date, 112) set @End_tentdte = convert(varchar(10), @b_trn_tendte_End_Date, 112) set @Beg_tentdte1 = convert(varchar(10), @b_trn_tendte_Beg_Date1, 112) set @Beg_tentdte2 = convert(varchar(10), @b_trn_tendte_End_Date2, 112)
/* this query looks for customers with posted transactions but none prior to the date range in question */
Select distinct b_cus_cname from bar_cus_db_rec ,bar_trn_db_rec b where b.b_trn_instid = '' and b.b_trn_instid = b_cus_instid and b.b_trn_actid = b_cus_cusid and convert(varchar(10), b.b_trn_tentdte) between @Beg_tentdte and @End_tentdte and not exists (select c.b_trn_actid from bar_trn_db_rec c where c.b_trn_instid = b.b_trn_instid --and c.b_trn_tentdte between 19970901 and 20030229 and convert(varchar(10), c.b_trn_tentdte) between @Beg_tentdte1 and @Beg_tentdte2 and c.b_trn_actid = b.b_trn_actid)
GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF GO SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO
every time I run the query, I get this error message: Error converting data type varchar to datetime.
After removing the double ' around the date and time parts i get the following error when running in QA: Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 0 Error converting data type varchar to datetime.
I have a sql code that I am having some difficulty with. All I'm trying to do is get each department and sum the amount by month based on the date in the table. I am getting "error converting data type varchar to numeric".
Code: select DEPARTMENT, CASE WHEN ((DATE >= '06/01/2014') AND (DATE <= '06/30/2014')) THEN (cast(sum(Amount) as decimal(10,2))) ELSE '' END AS 'JUNE', CASE WHEN ((DATE >= '07/01/2014') AND (DATE <= '07/30/2014')) THEN (cast(sum(Amount) as decimal(10,2))) ELSE '' END AS 'JULY' from L27_PHAROS_DETAIL_DATA WHERE Department = 'TECHNOLOGY SERVICES' GROUP BY DEPARTMENT, DATE ORDER BY DEPARTMENT
I try to JOin to tables: Enterprise has a decimal(5,3) and COHIER has varchar 5. All I am getting is an error on converting data. How can I fix this problem.
SELECT a.Security_Value, b.Enterprise_Number, b.Enterprise_Description FROM dbo.COHIER a INNER JOIN dbo.Enterprise b ON a.Security_Value = b.Enterprise_Number
