Select Distinct ColumnName From Table produces error I believe due to spaces, tabs or carriage returns
I'm running a query against one of our tables.
Select Distinct ColumnName From Table. (SELECT DISTINCT FULLERROR
FROM [DMS].[dbo].[SD_LOGDATA])
When I run this command it produces the error "The text data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable."
There are these funny looking squares in the FULLERROR Column and I believe these may be spaces, tabs or carriage returns.
Does anyone know what command I should run or if there's a way to change something up on the table to fix this?
Regards,
Wally
Select Distinct ColumnName From Table. (SELECT DISTINCT FULLERROR
FROM [DMS].[dbo].[SD_LOGDATA])
When I run this command it produces the error "The text data type cannot be selected as DISTINCT because it is not comparable."
There are these funny looking squares in the FULLERROR Column and I believe these may be spaces, tabs or carriage returns.
Does anyone know what command I should run or if there's a way to change something up on the table to fix this?
Regards,
Wally
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Good point Brandon. Well, someone else on my team assigned Text datatype to this column that will hold a large amount of data when they should have assigned datatype varchar.
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