I have the query report for user but have some error message display:
Error converting data type nvarchar to bigint
only one message.
How to find which field is giving data type error in query? Anyone can give advice? Many thanks!
As you have not provided data, it looks like you have NVARCHAR datatype, which is not implicitly convertable to Bigint
SELECT CAST(N'287888' AS BIGINT) -- Success
SELECT CAST(N'ABC123' AS BIGINT) -- Failure
See which column is failing and accordingly fix it.
You can either only load the proper values:
SELECT * FROM Table WHERE TRY_CAST(ErrorField AS BIGINT) IS NOT NULL
Or, You can load them as NULL(provided the target column allows NULL)
SELECT TRY_CAST(ErrorField AS BIGINT) FROM Table
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I am trying to convert data type of one of my columns (the table was imported from Excel), and then it shows an error
Error converting data type nvarchar to float
Code:
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[games_activity_2020$]
ALTER COLUMN [Version] float
What can I do differently?
probably there might be any character values inserted in the table while importing from excel. You can check those values using the below query
SELECT version
from [dbo].[games_activity_2020$]
where TRY_CONVERT(float, version) IS NULL
you can update those values and try to ALTER the table again
I suggest you run
SELECT * FROM [dbo].[games_activity_2020$]
WHERE TRY_CAST([Version] as FLOAT) IS NULL
and fix up any problematic values
One of my column is defined as ntext datatype which is no longer supported by many streams. I'm trying my best to convert that column to numeric or int and every attempt is reaching anywhere.
reg_no #my ntext field | name | country | etc |
I tried to alter the col using the command we all use, but failed
alter table tabl1
alter column [reg_no] numeric(38,0)
Error:
Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric
Any suggestions on fixing this or has anyone come across this in the past, if yes how did you get over it
You should be able to do this in two steps:
alter table tabl1 alter column [reg_no] nvarchar(max);
alter table tabl1 alter column [reg_no] numeric(38,0);
ntext is deprecated and conversion to numeric is not supported, but converting to nvarchar() is supported.
This assumes that the values are compatible with numeric. Otherwise you will get a type conversion error. If this happens, you can get the offending values by using:
select *
from t
where try_convert(numeric(38, 0), try_convert(nvarchar(max), x)) is null
Try,
select convert(int,convcert(varchar(40), reg_no)) as newfieldname from tabl1
I have problem inserting values in my SQL server database on Azure, I am getting the following error:
Failed to execute query. Error: String or binary data would be truncated in table 'dummy_app.dbo.user_info', column 'uid'. Truncated value: 'u'.
The statement has been terminated.
I don't understand where I am wrong, I just created the server, and I am trying to experiment but cant fix this.
if not exists (select * from sysobjects where name='user_info' and xtype='U')
create table user_info (
uid varchar unique,
name varchar,
email varchar
)
go;
INSERT INTO dbo.user_info(uid, name, email) VALUES('uids', 'name', 'email') go;
Creating the table works fine, the only thing that doesn't work is the second command INSERT
I suspect that the reason is that you haven't defined a lenght for varchar and it defaults to 1 as length. Therefore your value gets truncated.
Set a varchar length to something like varchar(200) and you should be good to go.
This looks like the fact that the CREATE portion of your procedure for the table doesn't include a length of varchar, so you'd have to specify a length such as varchar(50) since the default is 1. Refer to the official MS docs in the link, in the remarks.
docs.miscrosoft.com
Also, here is the syntax for the CREATE TABLE in Azure which might be helpful as well.
Syntax of Azure CREATE TABLE
I've got a front table that essentially matches our SSMS database table t_myTable. Some columns I'm having problems with are those with numeric data types in the db. They are set to allow null, but from the front end when the user deletes the numeric value and tries to send a blank value, it's not posting to the database. I suspect because this value is sent back as an empty string "" which does not translate to the null allowable data type.
Is there a trigger I can create to convert these empty strings into null on insert and update to the database? Or, perhaps a trigger would already happen too late in the process and I need to handle this on the front end or API portion instead?
We'll call my table t_myTable and the column myNumericColumn.
I could also be wrong and perhaps this 'empty string' issue is not the source of my problem. But I suspect that it is.
As #DaleBurrell noted, the proper place to handle data validation is in the application layer. You can wrap each of the potentially problematic values in a NULLIF function, which will convert the value to a NULL if an empty string is passed to it.
The syntax would be along these lines:
SELECT
...
,NULLIF(ColumnName, '') AS ColumnName
select nullif(Column1, '') from tablename
SQL Server doesn't allow to convert an empty string to the numeric data type. Hence the trigger is useless in this case, even INSTEAD OF one: SQL Server will check the conversion before inserting.
SELECT CAST('' AS numeric(18,2)) -- Error converting data type varchar to numeric
CREATE TABLE tab1 (col1 numeric(18,2) NULL);
INSERT INTO tab1 (col1) VALUES(''); -- Error converting data type varchar to numeric
As you didn't mention this error, the client should pass something other than ''. The problem can be found with SQL Profiler: you need to run it and see what exact SQL statement is executing to insert data into the table.
I am trying to convert a column formatted in varchar to decimal(19,12) with the following line of code
ALTER TABLE [tablename]
ALTER COLUMN [columnname][format]
and get the following prompt:
Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 25
Error converting data type varchar to numeric.
Has worked before like a charm. The issue here seems to be that the values in the column are 19 or so digit numeric values formatted as text.
I tried to create a new column, pasted shortened cell values (used the left() function) into it from the original column but that doesn't seem to do the trick either since the code above ends up occationally with the additional "Arithmetic overflow occurred." message.
When some of the rows have incorrect values, ALTER COLUMN would not work. A typical course of action goes like this:
Add a new column of the desired type
Update the column with values that you would like to keep
Drop the old column
Rename the new column
Step 2 would go like this:
UPDATE MyTable
SET NewColumn =
CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(OldColumn)=1 AND DATALENGTH(OldColumn) <= 19 THEN
CAST(OldColumn AS decimal(19,12))
ELSE
NULL
END
You could also turn ANSI warnings off with SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF command, which would let you run ALTER COLUMN ignoring data trunction errors. The drawback of this approach is that potential errors get ignored. On the other hand, when you do conversion explicitly with a CASE expression you have an option to supply an alternative value for the error case (I used NULL above, but you can put any number you want).
Could you try to seperate your problem? This does work on SQL 2012:
set nocount on
if object_id ('tempdb..#t1') is not null drop table #t1
create table #t1 (c1 varchar(100))
insert #t1 values ('1234567.8901234567890')
select * from #t1
alter table #t1
alter column c1 decimal(19,12)
select * from #t1
If you play around a bit with the strings you easily can produce an arimetic overflow error. But 'Error converting data type varchar to numeric' needs character or empty sting.
Maybe you can try with your data?