Blanks In Columns

Jan 18, 2006

Quick Question I hope.

Does having a lot of blanks in a column cause errors ?

In 2 or 3 packages where I get 95% of the data in the Error Colomn I can find nothing wrong with the data at all ? it all either seems perfect or there is no data in the column in question usually I would have maybe 800 rows where data would have been inserted but in the other 40, 000 rows the column is blank

Using the "Retain null values from the source as null values in the destination" doesnt seem to make a differance.

This is the error description

The data value cannot be converted for reasons other than sign mismatch or data overflow.


Anyone know of a solution / reason why this keeps happening

Thanks

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Replacing Blanks

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Nevil Mascarenhas writes "Hi SQL team,

I am just a beginer in SQL

Here is sample output of a SQL query

Alarm No Site Name Startdate Starttime

7767 ABC 20-08-05 00:00
7765 XYZ 20-08-05 00:00
7762 ASD
5453 QWE 22-08-05 01:00

In this above example, I would like to replace blank fields in Startdate and Starttime coloumn with XXX

Output required is

Alarm No Site Name Startdate Starttime

7767 ABC 20-08-05 00:00
7765 XYZ 20-08-05 00:00
7762 ASD XXX XXX
5453 QWE 22-08-05 01:00

Can you please guide me."

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Dim cstring As String = "User ID = sa; Password = ; database = E-Recruitment; Server = LAGOS-NTS3; Connect Timeout = 60"



'connection instantiation

Dim cnx As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(cstring)



Try

'open connection

cnx.Open()



'instantiates and execute a command object

Dim cmd As SqlCommand = New SqlCommand



With cmd

.Connection = cnx

.CommandText = "proc_insert_webuser"

.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure



Dim param1 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@applicantid", 0)

param1.DbType = DbType.Single

param1.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output

.Parameters.Add(param1)



Dim param2 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@firstname", txtFirstNM.Text)

param2.DbType = DbType.String

param2.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input

.Parameters.Add(param2)



Dim param3 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@midname", txtMidNM.Text)

param3.DbType = DbType.String

param3.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input

.Parameters.Add(param3)



Dim param4 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@lastname", txtLastNM.Text)

param4.DbType = DbType.String

param4.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input

.Parameters.Add(param4)



Dim param5 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@secretcode", txtPWD.Text)

param5.DbType = DbType.String

param5.Direction = ParameterDirection.Input

.Parameters.Add(param5)



Dim param6 As New SqlClient.SqlParameter("@my_err", 0)

param6.DbType = DbType.Single

param6.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output

.Parameters.Add(param6)



.ExecuteNonQuery()



'pick the auto-number

Dim strAppID = .Parameters("@applicantid").Value



'notifies the user of record success

lblMessage.Text = "Profile created. Your ApplicantID is : " & strAppID & " Kindly take note of your UserID. You'll need it for future logins."

End With

Catch ex As Exception

'notifies the user of any error(s)

lblMessage.Text = Err.Description & " originating from " & Err.Source

Finally

cnx.Close()

End Try

End Sub
==================

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;WITH SampleData ([ColumnA], [ColumnB], [ColumnC], [ColumnD]) AS
(
SELECT 5060,'04/30/2015','05:30', '08:30'
UNION ALL SELECT 5060, '04/30/2015','13:30', '15:30'
UNION ALL SELECT 5060,'05/02/2015','05:30', '08:30'
UNION ALL SELECT 5060, '05/02/2015','13:30', '15:30'

[Code] ....

The results from the above are as follows:

columnAcolumnB SampleTitle1 SampleTitle2 SampleTitle3 SampleTitle4
506004/30/201505:30 NULL NULL NULL
506004/30/201513:30 15:30 NULL NULL
506005/02/201505:30 NULL NULL NULL
506005/02/201513:30 15:30 NULL NULL

My desired results with desired headers are as follows:

PERSONSTARTDATE STARTIME1 ENDTIME1 STARTTIME2 ENDTIME2
506004/30/2015 05:30 08:30 13:30 15:30
506005/02/2015 05:30 08:30 13:30 15:30

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