It contains a field, amount, that gets loaded as a varchar when it should really be an int. There are a very small number of records (< .01%) that are not valid integers, and so simple ::int fails. How do I convert it? This situation happens constantly for analysts. We don't ...
The T-SQL language offers two functions to convert data from one data type to a target data type:CAST and CONVERT. In many ways, they both do the exact same thing in a SELECT statement or stored procedure, but the SQL Server CONVERT function has an extra parameter to express style. The...