What am I doing wrong here? I've looked through other posts but I'm getting different results than other people.
Trying to convert a varchar YYYYMMDD to datetime, and I keep getting:
Msg 8115, Level 16, State 2, Line 2
Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type datetime.
Attempts:
CONVERT(DATETIME, EXPDATE)
CONVERT(DATETIME, EXPDATE, 102)
(CONVERT(DATETIME, CAST(EXPDATE AS CHAR(8)), 112))
CONVERT(DATETIME, CAST(expdate AS VARCHAR(8)))
Am I bungling something obvious here?
You clearly have a values that are not valid dates.
In SQL Server 2012+, I would suggest TRY_CONVERT():
TRY_CONVERT(DATETIME, EXPDATE)
Then, look at the values that are NULL to see where data problems may be.
In earlier versions, you should be able to use isdate():
(CASE WHEN ISDATE(EXPDATE) = 1 THEN CAST(EXPDATE AS DATE) END)
I have a similarly formatted date field (DateKey) in a table I use. I convert it to DATETIME using this syntax:
SELECT CAST(CAST(DateKey AS VARCHAR(10)) AS DATETIME) FROM tblDate
Will this work for you?
Excellent. Gordon and chancrovsky, you helped me flush out the values that were formatted incorrectly. I used a version of what you posted and this worked
(CASE WHEN ISDATE(ExpDate) = 1 THEN CAST(ExpDate AS DATE) ELSE NULL
END) as ExpDate
Thank you so much!
Related
I am trying to query against the columns SOE (datetime field) and Answer (varchar field) from a table where NOT ALL Answer values are dates but some of them are. If I remove the datediff from the 'where' clause, I'm able to run the query just fine. But on including it, it errors out saying that 'Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string'.
For context, I'm using SQL Server 2014.
This is what my query looks like:
select ID,
convert(datetime, Answer, 121) as Answer,
datediff(dd,convert(datetime,
Answer, 121), SOE) as Days
from table
where Type in (1) and SOE between '2019-01-01' and '2019-03-31'
and FormLocation = 'M1005_INP_DISCHARGE_DT'
and PayorType = 'Medicare'
and Answer <> ' '
datediff(dd, convert(datetime, Answer, 121), SOE) <= 5
Any tips on how to resolve this would be appreciated.
Before doing the conversion to datetime make sure the data in the "Answer" field can be converted to date. Try this...
and ((isdate(Answer) = 1) and (datediff(dd, convert(datetime, Answer, 121), SOE) <= 5))
Since 2012 you can use try_convert().
...
datediff(dd, try_convert(datetime, Answer, 121), SOE) <= 5
...
try_convert() returns NULL if the conversion doesn't succeed. And so does datediff() then. So you might want to handle that case some way.
Using apply you can save yourself some repetitive code:
select ID,
answer_datetime as Answer,
datediff(day, answer_datetime, SOE) as Days
from table t cross apply
(values (try_convert(datetime, Answer, 121))) v(answer_datetime)
where Type in (1) and
SOE between '2019-01-01' and '2019-03-31' and
FormLocation = 'M1005_INP_DISCHARGE_DT' and
PayorType = 'Medicare' and
Answer <> ' ' and
datediff(day, answer_datetime, SOE) <= 5;
But you should really fix the data definitions so date/times are stored using the correct type.
i am trying to pulling data for all shipments with shipmentdate greater than todays date. However, I cant figure out an easy conversion of the format of the nvarchar, i get a out of range value error when trying to run this:
select *
from dbo.BAS_CT_RAW_ARCHIVE_TBL
where SHIPMENTDATE > GETDATE()
Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1 The conversion of a nvarchar data
type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.
Try:
select *
from dbo.BAS_CT_RAW_ARCHIVE_TBL
where convert(date, SHIPMENTDATE, 103) > GETDATE()
To see how to use convert with non-standard dates see this.
Further consideration: use proper datatypes for columns, i.e. don't store dates as strings, but as date datatype - it will prevent you from having such problems.
according to your data format that got from comment below should work
select * from dbo.BAS_CT_RAW_ARCHIVE_TBL
where CONVERT(date, SHIPMENTDATE, 103) > convert(date, GETDATE())
I have the below code which is failing at the 'CAST('10-10-2014' AS DATETIME)', please can someone assist?
SELECT Sum(poval)
FROM iesa_dwhs.dbo.vw_an_purch_bkb_010_sources vw_AN_Purch_BKB_010_Sources
WHERE Upper(plant) = Upper(('0LH0'))
AND dt BETWEEN Cast('10-10-2014' AS DATETIME) AND Getdate() - 7
AND Upper(matcat) = 'CODED'
Read the documentation. Be explicit about your conversion:
select british_style_datetime = convert(datetime, '23-10-2015 20:15:10.123' , 103 )
If you are not explicit about it, the conversion will be done per the configured settings for the SQL Server instance in question. And if the date/time string is non-ambigous, the conversion is likely to fail, with something like this:
select convert(datetime, '23-10-2015' )
producing (on my SQL Server):
Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type
resulted in an out-of-range value.
And if the conversion is ambiguous, the operation will probably succeed, but you're likely to get an incorrect value, with something like
select convert(datetime, '11-10-2015' )
producing (on my SQL Server):
2015-11-10 00:00:00.000
Are you sure dt it a datetime?
The safe bet is yyyy-mm-dd as that only has one mm dd format
All this works for me
select Cast('10-10-2014' AS DATETIME)
select Cast('2014-10-10' AS DATETIME)
select GETDATE()
select GETDATE() - 7
select 'yes'
where Cast('2014-10-15' AS DATETIME) between Cast('2014-10-10' AS DATETIME) AND Getdate() - 7
select 'yes'
where Cast('10-12-2014' AS DATETIME) between Cast('10-10-2014' AS DATETIME) AND (Getdate() - 7)
If you're using SQL Server 2014 or newer, you can use the DATEFROMPARTS function. Then you won't need to worry about the format.
I have a bunch of dates in varchar like this:
20080107
20090101
20100405
...
How do I convert them to a date format like this:
2008-01-07
2009-01-01
2010-04-05
I've tried using this:
SELECT [FIRST_NAME]
,[MIDDLE_NAME]
,[LAST_NAME]
,cast([GRADUATION_DATE] as date)
FROM mydb
But get this message:
Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 2Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.
The error is happening because you (or whoever designed this table) have a bunch of dates in VARCHAR. Why are you (or whoever designed this table) storing dates as strings? Do you (or whoever designed this table) also store salary and prices and distances as strings?
To find the values that are causing issues (so you (or whoever designed this table) can fix them):
SELECT GRADUATION_DATE FROM mydb
WHERE ISDATE(GRADUATION_DATE) = 0;
Bet you have at least one row. Fix those values, and then FIX THE TABLE. Or ask whoever designed the table to FIX THE TABLE. Really nicely.
ALTER TABLE mydb ALTER COLUMN GRADUATION_DATE DATE;
Now you don't have to worry about the formatting - you can always format as YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD on the client, or using CONVERT in SQL. When you have a valid date as a string literal, you can use:
SELECT CONVERT(CHAR(10), CONVERT(datetime, '20120101'), 120);
...but this is better done on the client (if at all).
There's a popular term - garbage in, garbage out. You're never going to be able to convert to a date (never mind convert to a string in a specific format) if your data type choice (or the data type choice of whoever designed the table) inherently allows garbage into your table. Please fix it. Or ask whoever designed the table (again, really nicely) to fix it.
Use SELECT CONVERT(date, '20140327')
In your case,
SELECT [FIRST_NAME],
[MIDDLE_NAME],
[LAST_NAME],
CONVERT(date, [GRADUATION_DATE])
FROM mydb
In your case it should be:
Select convert(datetime,convert(varchar(10),GRADUATION_DATE,120)) as
'GRADUATION_DATE' from mydb
I was also facing the same issue where I was receiving the Transaction_Date as YYYYMMDD in bigint format. So I converted it into Datetime format using below query and saved it in new column with datetime format. I hope this will help you as well.
SELECT
convert( Datetime, STUFF(STUFF(Transaction_Date, 5, 0, '-'), 8, 0, '-'), 120) As [Transaction_Date_New]
FROM mydb
Just to add more info about all solution above:
SELECT [FIRST_NAME],
[MIDDLE_NAME],
[LAST_NAME],
CONVERT(date, [GRADUATION_DATE])
FROM mydb
Assuming you don't have a WHERE clause, it is ok, the Convert will try to return all dates even if it is not a valid date like '00000000' (it was in my case).
But, if you need a WHERE clause, so you can see a message like this:
So I tested a mix of some approaches mentioned above like:
DECLARE #DateStart datetime = '2021-02-18'
DECLARE #DateEnd datetime = '2021-02-19'
SELECT [FIRST_NAME],
[MIDDLE_NAME],
[LAST_NAME],
CONVERT(date, [GRADUATION_DATE])
FROM mydb
WHERE
--THIS LINE SHOULD BE ENOUGTH TO AVOID WRONG DATES, BUT IT IS NOT
ISDATE([GRADUATION_DATE]) = 1 AND
CONVERT(char(10), [GRADUATION_DATE], 120) BETWEEN #DateStart and #DateEnd
And Finally I used this way with success:
DECLARE #DateStart datetime = '2021-02-18'
DECLARE #DateEnd datetime = '2021-02-19'
SELECT [FIRST_NAME],
[MIDDLE_NAME],
[LAST_NAME],
CONVERT(date, [GRADUATION_DATE])
FROM mydb
WHERE
CONVERT(char(10),
-- I ADDED THIS LINE TO IGNORE WRONG DATES
CASE WHEN ISDATE([GRADUATION_DATE]) = 1 THEN [GRADUATION_DATE] ELSE '1900-01-01' END, 120)
BETWEEN #DateStart and #DateEnd
Please help me to find out error in my SQL query. I have created this query to compare dates
select * from Joinplans jp
where cast(convert(varchar,GETDATE(),103) AS datetime) BETWEEN
CASE(convert(varchar,jp.planstartDate,103) AS datetime) AND
CASE(convert(varchar,DATEADD(DAY,jp.planDays,jp.planstartDate),103) AS DATETIME)
It's giving me the error:
incorrect near 'AS'
I am using SQL Server 2005.
You wrote case instead of cast in two instances.
If planStartDate is actually a date, then there is no need to cast it to a character column:
Select ...
From Joinplans jp
where GetDate() Between planStartDate And DateAdd(day, jp.planDays, jp.planStartDate)
Now, if planStartDate is storing both date and time data, then you might want to use something like:
Select ...
From Joinplans jp
Where planStartDate <= GetDate()
And GetDate() < DateAdd(day, jp.planDays + 1, jp.planStartDate)
This ensures that all times on the last date calculated via the DateAdd function are included