I have two tables. One of them has a text field, and the other has a numeric
(integer) field that serves a similar purpose. I want to connect (UNION
actually) the two tables, and store the text from the first table in the
same field as the number from the other.
For example:
SELECT TextID AS ID
FROM W1
UNION
SELECT NumericID AS ID
FROM W2
The above query results in a type mismatch error due to trying to store an
Int in a text field. I have tried the SQL CONVERT function, but the docs
seem to indicate that it is just for Dates. In any case, it hasn't worked
for me.
I have a table with over a million rows and one of the fields containsamounts of money in text format.What is the most efficient way of converting this field to a numberformat that I can sum on?Regards,Ciarán
Given a string it should convert it to a proper text.Example: if you passed a string 'Cat in the hat', I want 'Cat In TheHat'Curious about few things, Does sql have Instr OR Split(like VB)functionalityAnybody can help??
Is there any function in SQL-Server which converts a number into its Hexadecimal equivalent..? if not, how should I convert a number to its hexadecimal equivalent..?
I am loading data from an iseries into a sql server 2005 DB. Our dates are stored as a numeric value in a format of CYYMMDD where C = Century indicator 20'th is 0 and 21'st is 1, YY = Year, MM = Month and DD = Day!
Today would be 1070701. Now I want to use a derived column which which would be of type date using an expression to do the conversion.
Usually, we would add 19000000 to the number to give us 20070701 then I'd convert it to a string and then substring into a date format.
I'm just getting started with SQL 2005 so I don't know how to do this using an expression.
I have a database table with 2 numeric fields. The values to be inserted into these fields come from text boxes in an ASP.NET page. So in the parameters to add into these fields I simply use 'textbox1.text' & textbox2.text'.
One of the fields accepts the data within the text box and adds it into the appropriate numeric data field in the table. However on the other text box I get an error message 'Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric.'
Does anyone know why this occurs just on the one entry and not the other?, and if anyone has any suggestions on how to get around this please let me know.
I am using DTS to import text to a table. This mostly works except for the 'DateTime' datatype where I always run into either 'Arithmetic overflow' or 'Unable to convert varchar to DateTime format.' I can convert same data without incident in Access.
I have a field that stores a date as text (121205). I need to convert this field to a date, but since it is text, I cannot figure out how to do it. Any ideas??? Thanks! :D
Hey,Another 'must be simple' question.. I'm wishing to convert a binaryfield into a textual representation of that binary data. i.e. come outwith what the query analyser would display, and not try to convert thebinary into ascii/whatever encoded text.Cheers for any clues,Chris
My organization have a web-based application and needs it to support multilingual so we will be adapting our app to use unicode. However, one of our problems is to convert existing data from text to ntext. I couldn't find anything that document this. What is the best way to do that? I would like to be able to migrate the data from an existing text column to another ntext column in the table.
If I can't do that, what are the options? If it's possible, I would like to be able to do this in sql script.
How to convert a SQL table into Text file? I have a table and I want to extract the values with the field names above to a text file. The query should also allow me to define the starting position of the fields in the text file.
New to the forums here. I'm not a beginner with SQL, but nor am I a SQL developer - network engineer who knows some scripting and the fundamentals of DB design/administration. There's the background.
I have a database of client information where a date is keyed in and stored as text. Because this is entered by end-users, the way it's entered varies - 1/1/2001, 01/01/2001, etc. Most use "1/1/2001" (note the date is not the same for each record)
I have 4,000 records to update and I need to try to convert the text string to the correct date - changing 1/1/2005 to the same date in proper date/time format. My database uses datetime as an integer calculating the number of days from 12/30/1800. Today's date would be 75508. Time is separated into different fields.
I can do the work to update the text to a single format to make the conversion easier, but I am having trouble locating the proper way to write a convert function to do this. I've searched online (which is how I came here) and have searched the forums without luck.
I thought i fixed this problem, as it WORKED about two days ago, but now I'm getting errors.
I have a series of text files, some are delimited, some are fixed width. I previously was able to import these files thru a dts package by creating the table in a stored procedure. Exple: CREATE TABLE [Pol_Dump073104] ( [Product_Type] varchar (12) NULL, [Benefit] float NULL, [Base_Premium] varchar (12) NULL, [Rider_Premium] float NULL, [Contract_Value] float NULL, )
I then import the text file into the table and then cast the float datatypes as money in a select into statement to do aggregate functions on the money fields. this worked previously, but now I'm receiving this: 'Error converting datatype char to money.' I tried to convert to float and received the same error, only with float where the word money was.
I have a table that contains the following two columns:BITS (image(16))BIT_LENGTH (int(4))When I look at the table, I see "OLE Object" in the BITS column. Whatsyntax should I use in a SELECT statement to convert the binary imageinfo contained in "BITS" into simple text that I can read? What roledoes the BIT_LENGTH field play?
I have a column that I'm trying to call into a calculated measure to determine an expected contract amount (Terms in Month). The problem is that some of the terms are defined as text strings (MTM, Coterminous, One-time) while others are numbers (12, 36, etc). The entire column is recognized as text. I have a numeric value that management has agreed would be an acceptable substitution (MTM=1, Coterminous=6) and so on. I can't however, figure out how to convert those texts to a number since they are different data types. I've tried a nested IF statement, as well as a LOOKUPVALUE..I'm doing this in Power Pivot, so am limited to DAX formulas
Hi, We are in process of converting all of the data type of the fields from CHAR/VARCHAR/TEXT into NCHAR/NVARCHAR/NTEXT (DBCS). Having more than 900 store procedure its look like real pain to make modification in all of the SPs.
After failed to find any help from GOOGLE, I am posting this request. I am basically looking for any automated tool which are convert data type in SP based on the field of the table used in the SP. Or at least which can provide me some sort of list which can helpful for doing manual reactoring.
I have to columns; One contains "Username" and the other contains "Password".I am trying to create a query that checks the username column for a specific value and then if it is found returns the row number so it can be checked against the password..
How can i convert single quote i.e. ' using replace method. Is there any methods we have to replace or to convert single quotation . Please let me know.
I am planning to develop application using VB.NET and MS SQL Server Express.
Complete application (Forms and Reports) will be in Arabic, 1. Can I use SQL Server Express for this senario 2. Can I perform search in Arabic (Numeric and Text) 3. Can I take back up of Database 4. Just to make sure, can I have Stored Procedures, Views and security features in SQL Server Express
I have a requirement, I want to display the employee status report. In status report, if the status=0 ,I need to display inactive.. if the status=1 active and if status=2 archived.. I am getting values from table like below. I need to change to text.How can we achieve the same.
Hello, I use the full-text search utility in SQL Server 2005 to find word in PDFs document. This is my 'Documents' table: id (PK), data (VarBinary(max)), extension (nvarchar(4)) My full-text catalog on 'data' column works fine because when I search 'Microsoft', my document containing this word is returned as result.
SELECT * FROM Documents WHERE freetext([data], 'Microsoft'); 1 | 0x255044.... | .pdf
But I need to know how many times 'Microsoft' word appears in this document. Do you have any idea how can I retrieve this information? Thanks in advance!
