I am trying to update several rows on my table and I am having a problem when it comes to converting, here's my query:
update Table1
set [Printed Notices] = '1,677'
where [Date ID] = '2013-05-20'
and so far, here's my error:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '1,677' to data type int.
Please help :( thank you!
You are casting the int to a string by using quotes around it. At best you will be relying on some kind of silent type conversion by the database engine, which you will not get. So just remove the quotes and it will work.
update Table1
set [Printed Notices] = 1677
where [Date ID] = '2013-05-20'
You have to get the commas out of your numeric text strings before you try to use them as integers. This t-sql command does that.
CAST(REPLACE('1,667', ',', '') AS INT)
So, you can do this....
... set [col] = CAST(REPLACE('1,667', ',', '') AS INT) ...
Related
I have values as string format below,
Values :
-24,52
-22,74
-13,08
303,75
When i convert above string values as money all values displays as below
-2452,00
-2274,00
-1308,00
30375,00
All values have more "0" number problem.How can i convert string values to exact money format ?
You can try to remove the 00 like this:
select replace(convert(varchar,cast(yourNum as money),1), ',00','')
Or in SQL Server 2012 you can try to use FORMAT
SELECT Format(24.01, '##,##0')
select cast('-24,01' as money) / 100
For anything other than visual presentation its a good idea to avoid MONEY entirely.
try this query
WITH t
AS
(
SELECT -24.52 AS [val]
UNION
SELECT -22.74
UNION
SELECT -13.08
UNION
SELECT 303.75
)
SELECT CAST( ABS(t.val) AS decimal(10,2)) -- or decimal(10,0)
FROM t
i tried to replace the comma with a point and got lucky:
cast(replace('-12,23', ',', '.') as money)
the reason is, sql server treats ',' as thousend delimiter instead of decimal delimiter
I have variable called #prmclientcode which is nvarchar. The input to this variable can be a single client code or multiple client codes separated by comma. For e.g.
#prmclientcode='1'
or
#prmclientcode='1,2,3'.
I am comparing this variable to a client code column in of the tables. The data type of this column is numeric(6,0). I tried converting the variable data type like below
SNCA_CLIENT_CODE IN ('''+convert(numeric(6,0),#prmclientcode+''')) (The query is inside a dynamic sql).
But when I try executing this I get the error
Arithmetic overflow error converting nvarchar to data type numeric.
Can anyone please help me here!
Thanks!
You need to convert the numeric(6,0) column to nvarchar data type. You can use below scrip to convert it to nvarchar, before processing:
SNCA_CLIENT_CODE IN ('''+convert(cast( numeric(6,0) as nvarchar(max) ),#prmclientcode+'''))
Please try with the below code snippet.
DECLARE #ProductTotals TABLE
(
ProductID int
)
INSERT INTO #ProductTotals VALUES(1)
INSERT INTO #ProductTotals VALUES(11)
INSERT INTO #ProductTotals VALUES(3)
DECLARE #prmclientcode VARCHAR(MAX)='1'
SELECT * FROM #ProductTotals
SELECT * FROM #ProductTotals WHERE CHARINDEX(',' + CAST(ProductID AS VARCHAR(MAX)) + ',' , ',' + ISNULL(#prmclientcode,ProductID) + ',') > 0
Let me know if any concern.
use following code in order to separate your variable:
DECLARE
#T VARCHAR(100) = '1,2,3,23,342',
#I int = 1
;WITH x(I, num) AS (
SELECT 1, CHARINDEX(',',#T,#I)
UNION ALL
SELECT num+1,CHARINDEX(',',#T,num+1)
FROM x
WHERE num+1<LEN(#T)
AND num<>0
)
SELECT SUBSTRING(#T,I,CASE WHEN num=0 THEN LEN(#T)+1 ELSE num END -I)
FROM x
Use can use either table function or dynamic sql query, both options will work.
Let me know if you need more help
Running some pretty simple SQL here:
select *
from table
where columnA <> convert(int,columnB)
and isnumeric(columnB) = 1
Still getting this error every time:
Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value 'XXX' to data type int.
If you're using SQL Server 2012 or more recent you could use TRY_PARSE which will return NULL when the parse fails.
SELECT TRY_PARSE('one' as int) -- NULL
, TRY_PARSE('1' as int) -- 1
, TRY_PARSE('0.1' as int) -- NULL
Returns the result of an expression, translated to the requested data type, or null if the cast fails in SQL Server. Use TRY_PARSE only for converting from string to date/time and number types.
Isnumeric has a lot of odd behavior. For example, it also considers currency signs such as $ or £, and even a hyphen (-) to be numeric.
I think you'd be better of using NOT columnB like '%[^0-9]%' to ONLY take numbers into account.
Check the comments at the bottom of the msdn page for isnumeric(), which you can find here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186272.aspx
This may sound weird, but it breaks when do not put the ISNUMERIC check first. Try this out:
WITH [Table]
AS
(
SELECT columnA,columnB
FROM
(
VALUES (1,'2'),
(2,'XXX')
) A(columnA,columnB)
)
select *
from [Table]
where ISNUMERIC(columnB) = 1 --this works
AND columnA <> convert(int,columnB)
--where columnA <> convert(int,columnB) --this doesn't work
-- and isnumeric(columnB) = 1
I suggest you to reverse your checking like this:
SELECT *
FROM table
WHERE CONVERT(NVARCHAR, columnA) <> columnB
I got this using a combination of the answers and comments here. I used a CASE statement in my WHERE clause and also had to use LIKE instead of ISNUMERIC to account for illegal characters. I also had to use BIGINT because a few select samples were overflowing the INT column. Thanks for all of the suggestions everybody!
select * from patient
where PatientExternalID <>
(case when mrn not like '%[^0-9]%'
then convert(bigint, mrn)
else 0
end)
I am stuck on converting a varchar column UserID to INT. I know, please don't ask why this UserID column was not created as INT initially, long story.
So I tried this, but it doesn't work. and give me an error:
select CAST(userID AS int) from audit
Error:
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value
'1581............................................................................................................................' to data type int.
I did select len(userID) from audit and it returns 128 characters, which are not spaces.
I tried to detect ASCII characters for those trailing after the ID number and ASCII value = 0.
I have also tried LTRIM, RTRIM, and replace char(0) with '', but does not work.
The only way it works when I tell the fixed number of character like this below, but UserID is not always 4 characters.
select CAST(LEFT(userID, 4) AS int) from audit
You could try updating the table to get rid of these characters:
UPDATE dbo.[audit]
SET UserID = REPLACE(UserID, CHAR(0), '')
WHERE CHARINDEX(CHAR(0), UserID) > 0;
But then you'll also need to fix whatever is putting this bad data into the table in the first place. In the meantime perhaps try:
SELECT CONVERT(INT, REPLACE(UserID, CHAR(0), ''))
FROM dbo.[audit];
But that is not a long term solution. Fix the data (and the data type while you're at it). If you can't fix the data type immediately, then you can quickly find the culprit by adding a check constraint:
ALTER TABLE dbo.[audit]
ADD CONSTRAINT do_not_allow_stupid_data
CHECK (CHARINDEX(CHAR(0), UserID) = 0);
EDIT
Ok, so that is definitely a 4-digit integer followed by six instances of CHAR(0). And the workaround I posted definitely works for me:
DECLARE #foo TABLE(UserID VARCHAR(32));
INSERT #foo SELECT 0x31353831000000000000;
-- this succeeds:
SELECT CONVERT(INT, REPLACE(UserID, CHAR(0), '')) FROM #foo;
-- this fails:
SELECT CONVERT(INT, UserID) FROM #foo;
Please confirm that this code on its own (well, the first SELECT, anyway) works for you. If it does then the error you are getting is from a different non-numeric character in a different row (and if it doesn't then perhaps you have a build where a particular bug hasn't been fixed). To try and narrow it down you can take random values from the following query and then loop through the characters:
SELECT UserID, CONVERT(VARBINARY(32), UserID)
FROM dbo.[audit]
WHERE UserID LIKE '%[^0-9]%';
So take a random row, and then paste the output into a query like this:
DECLARE #x VARCHAR(32), #i INT;
SET #x = CONVERT(VARCHAR(32), 0x...); -- paste the value here
SET #i = 1;
WHILE #i <= LEN(#x)
BEGIN
PRINT RTRIM(#i) + ' = ' + RTRIM(ASCII(SUBSTRING(#x, #i, 1)))
SET #i = #i + 1;
END
This may take some trial and error before you encounter a row that fails for some other reason than CHAR(0) - since you can't really filter out the rows that contain CHAR(0) because they could contain CHAR(0) and CHAR(something else). For all we know you have values in the table like:
SELECT '15' + CHAR(9) + '23' + CHAR(0);
...which also can't be converted to an integer, whether you've replaced CHAR(0) or not.
I know you don't want to hear it, but I am really glad this is painful for people, because now they have more war stories to push back when people make very poor decisions about data types.
This question has got 91,000 views so perhaps many people are looking for a more generic solution to the issue in the title "error converting varchar to INT"
If you are on SQL Server 2012+ one way of handling this invalid data is to use TRY_CAST
SELECT TRY_CAST (userID AS INT)
FROM audit
On previous versions you could use
SELECT CASE
WHEN ISNUMERIC(RTRIM(userID) + '.0e0') = 1
AND LEN(userID) <= 11
THEN CAST(userID AS INT)
END
FROM audit
Both return NULL if the value cannot be cast.
In the specific case that you have in your question with known bad values I would use the following however.
CAST(REPLACE(userID COLLATE Latin1_General_Bin, CHAR(0),'') AS INT)
Trying to replace the null character is often problematic except if using a binary collation.
This is more for someone Searching for a result, than the original post-er. This worked for me...
declare #value varchar(max) = 'sad';
select sum(cast(iif(isnumeric(#value) = 1, #value, 0) as bigint));
returns 0
declare #value varchar(max) = '3';
select sum(cast(iif(isnumeric(#value) = 1, #value, 0) as bigint));
returns 3
I would try triming the number to see what you get:
select len(rtrim(ltrim(userid))) from audit
if that return the correct value then just do:
select convert(int, rtrim(ltrim(userid))) from audit
if that doesn't return the correct value then I would do a replace to remove the empty space:
select convert(int, replace(userid, char(0), '')) from audit
This is how I solved the problem in my case:
First of all I made sure the column I need to convert to integer doesn't contain any spaces:
update data set col1 = TRIM(col1)
I also checked whether the column only contains numeric digits.
You can check it by:
select * from data where col1 like '%[^0-9]%' order by col1
If any nonnumeric values are present, you can save them to another table and remove them from the table you are working on.
select * into nonnumeric_data from data where col1 like '%[^0-9]%'
delete from data where col1 like '%[^0-9]%'
Problems with my data were the cases above. So after fixing them, I created a bigint variable and set the values of the varchar column to the integer column I created.
alter table data add int_col1 bigint
update data set int_col1 = CAST(col1 AS VARCHAR)
This worked for me, hope you find it useful as well.
I have a query which selects a table based on the provided uniqueidentifier Id so when i provides Id to a value it returns the result but if i am passing it like below i am getting an error message. Please suggest how to use Convert or Cast in this case to resolve this issue.
Thanks
SELECT * FROM TBL WHERE ID=''
Assuming #id is a string parameter, and that the ID column is not nullable, you could do something silly like this:
SELECT * FROM TBL WHERE ID = COALESCE(NULLIF(#id, ''), ID);
But really you should be passing NULL if there is no value, not an empty string. This shouldn't be a string parameter in the first place.
According to the comments on this answer, the solution should be something like this (in pseudo-code):
if textbox1.Text.ToString().Equals('') {
SELECT * FROM TBL
}
else {
SELECT * FROM TBL WHERE ID='"+textbox1.text+"'
}
You may do the IF in the C# application.