Sql in sql server with convert - sql

Question

I am trying to use convert in an where clause in the select statement. My query looks like this:
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10 [SurveyResult].*
,[Ticket].[RefNumber]
FROM [SurveyResult]
LEFT JOIN [Ticket] ON [SurveyResult].[TicketID] = [Ticket].[TicketID]
JOIN [SurveyResponse] AS SurveyResponse1 ON [SurveyResult].[ResultID] = SurveyResponse1.[ResultID]
JOIN [QuestionAnswer] AS QuestionAnswer1 ON SurveyResponse1.[AnswerID] = QuestionAnswer1.[AnswerID]
JOIN [SurveyQuestion] AS SurveyQuestion1 ON QuestionAnswer1.[QuestionID] = SurveyQuestion1.[QuestionID]
WHERE SurveyQuestion1.[SurveyID] = [SurveyResult].[SurveyID]
AND SurveyQuestion1.[QuestionID] = 'C86CB39A-8FE0-4FE8-B38F-17F1BE611016'
AND CONVERT(INT, SurveyResponse1.[Response]) >= 1
AND CONVERT(INT, SurveyResponse1.[Response]) <= 5
The problem is that I get some errors when converting the values to integer in the where statement.
I know I have some rows that don't contain numbers in the Response column but I filter those so without the convert part in the where clause I get only numbers so it works like this:
SELECT TOP 1000 [ResponseID]
,[ResultID]
,[Response]
FROM [WFSupport].[dbo].[SurveyResponse]
JOIN QuestionAnswer ON SurveyResponse.AnswerID = QuestionAnswer.AnswerID
WHERE QuestionAnswer.QuestionID = 'C10BF42E-5D51-46BC-AD89-E57BA80EECFD'
And in the results I get numbers but once I add the convert part in the statement I I get an error that it can't convert some text to numbers.

Answer 1

Either do like Mark says or just have NULL values default to something numerical, this would give you a where statement like:
WHERE SurveyQuestion1.[SurveyID] = [SurveyResult].[SurveyID]
AND SurveyQuestion1.[QuestionID] = 'C86CB39A-8FE0-4FE8-B38F-17F1BE611016'
AND CONVERT(INT, ISNULL(SurveyResponse1.[Response],0)) BETWEEN 1 AND 5
The important part is the ISNULL() function and I also used BETWEEN to avoid duplicate converts.

Answer 2

Try:
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10
[SurveyResult].*,
[Ticket].[RefNumber]
FROM
[SurveyResult]
LEFT JOIN [Ticket] ON [SurveyResult].[TicketID] = [Ticket].[TicketID]
JOIN [SurveyResponse] AS SurveyResponse1
ON [SurveyResult].[ResultID] = SurveyResponse1.[ResultID]
JOIN [QuestionAnswer] AS QuestionAnswer1
ON SurveyResponse1.[AnswerID] = QuestionAnswer1.[AnswerID]
JOIN [SurveyQuestion] AS SurveyQuestion1
ON QuestionAnswer1.[QuestionID] = SurveyQuestion1.[QuestionID]
where SurveyQuestion1.[SurveyID] = [SurveyResult].[SurveyID]
AND SurveyQuestion1.[QuestionID] = 'C86CB39A-8FE0-4FE8-B38F-17F1BE611016'
AND CASE SurveyQuestion1.[QuestionID]
WHEN 'C86CB39A-8FE0-4FE8-B38F-17F1BE611016'
THEN Convert(int, SurveyResponse1.[Response])
ELSE 0
END BETWEEN 1 AND 5
(The AND SurveyQuestion1.[QuestionID] = 'C86CB39A-8FE0-4FE8-B38F-17F1BE611016' is retained in case the query is using an index on QuestionID - if not, it can be removed, as the same condition is implicit in the subsequent CASE condition.)

Answer 3

Try this one -
SELECT DISTINCT TOP 10 sr.*, t.[RefNumber]
FROM dbo.SurveyResult sr
JOIN dbo.SurveyResponse sr2 ON sr.[ResultID] = sr2.[ResultID]
JOIN dbo.QuestionAnswer sa ON sr2.[AnswerID] = sa.[AnswerID]
JOIN dbo.SurveyQuestion sq ON sa.[QuestionID] = sq.[QuestionID] AND sq.[SurveyID] = sr.[SurveyID]
LEFT JOIN dbo.Ticket t ON sr.[TicketID] = t.[TicketID]
WHERE sq.[QuestionID] = 'C86CB39A-8FE0-4FE8-B38F-17F1BE611016'
AND CAST(ISNULL(sr2.[Response], 0) AS INT) BETWEEN 1 AND 5