Link to home
Start Free TrialLog in
Avatar of Tpaul_10
Tpaul_10Flag for United States of America

asked on

Convert function help

Experts,

Here is my code

declare @ItemIDList varchar(8000)

set @ItemIDList = '274686,275521,275522'

select * From MyDb..MyTable where ItemID in (convert(int,@ItemIDList ))

Getting the following error.
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '274686,275521,275522' to data type int.

Could you please help me correct if I am missing something.

Thanks in Advance.
Avatar of Kent Olsen
Kent Olsen
Flag of United States of America image

Hi Paul,

'274686,275521,275522' is not an integer.  What are you trying to do?


Kent
Avatar of Tpaul_10

ASKER

Basically I have a list of ItemIDs with comma delimited and based on the ItemIDs I need to get some information for the ItemIDs from my database table and display some information.

Hope this clarifies and please let me know if you need any further information.

Thanks
ASKER CERTIFIED SOLUTION
Avatar of Tpaul_10
Tpaul_10
Flag of United States of America image

Link to home
membership
This solution is only available to members.
To access this solution, you must be a member of Experts Exchange.
Start Free Trial
I've requested that this question be closed as follows:

Accepted answer: 0 points for Tpaul_10's comment #a39749175

for the following reason:

A
In order to get this done you need to follow the below steps

Step 1: Create the below split function in your database

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Split
(
 @RowData nvarchar(2000),
 @SplitOn nvarchar(5)
)
RETURNS @RtnValue table
(
 Id int identity(1,1),
 Data nvarchar(100)
)
AS
BEGIN
 Declare @Cnt int
 Set @Cnt = 1
 DECLARE @index INT
 SET @index = Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)
 While (@index>0)
 Begin
 Insert Into @RtnValue (data)
  Select
 Data = ltrim(rtrim(Substring(@RowData,1,@index-1)))
 
 Set @RowData = Substring(@RowData,@index+1,len(@RowData))
 Set @Cnt = @Cnt + 1
 SET @index = Charindex(@SplitOn,@RowData)
 End
 
 Insert Into @RtnValue (data)
 Select Data = ltrim(rtrim(@RowData))
 
 Return
END

Open in new window


Step 2: re-write your query as below

select * From MyDb..MyTable where ItemID in ( SELECT CAST(DATA as BIGINT) FROM dbo.split(@ItemIDList) )

Open in new window

There is no proper reason why this guy wants to close this question, although now we provided him a better solution.

Can you please elaborate rather than simply typing A
As I have specified I found a way to get through this issue and I have posted my code as well and your comment came in after that.

I have tested my code and is working as I am expected and that was the reason I wanted to close it.

Thanks and sorry if there is any confusion
Thats Ok, no problem O.