convert varchar to int with decimal values in tsql server 2008

Hi gvamsimba,

You'll need to remove the punctuation from the string.

  SELECT replace (column_name, ',', '') from mytable;

Then just recast the result.

  SELECT cast (replace (column_name, ',', '') as double) from mytable;


Good Luck!
Kent

select convert(Decimal(28,16),convert(float, <your value>))

Adjust precision of the decimal to your needs.

>they gave errors.
Please tell us what these errors are.  Mind readers we ain't.

>the example values are 9,10,223,345.99
Are is this a single value '9,10,223,345.99 ', or multiple rows with values 9, 10, .. ?

It's possible that there are some non-numeric values that are throwing an error, such as '3 1/2', 'banana', or '9-10'.  To view any values that can't convert to int, SQL 2012 and higher you can use TRY_CONVERT

SELECT column_name
FROM table_name
WHERE TRY_CONVERT(int, column_name) IS NULL

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Hi Jim, mine is sql server 2008 and the data is multiple rows

Hi Kdo, your query has a syntax error.

Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'from'.

Hi skribbe , your query is giving an error as below..

Msg 8114, Level 16, State 5, Line 1
Error converting data type varchar to float.

Sorry -- double isn't a SQL Server type.  :(  Use float instead.

 SELECT cast (replace ('12,345.99', ',', '') as float)

Ok.  With 2008 you can use ISNUMERIC, which returns a 1 if the value is in numeric format, and 0 if it isn't.

SELECT column_name
FROM table_name
WHERE ISNUMERIC(column_name) = 0

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Hi Jim, the original errors which I got for float and int are as follows

Error converting data type varchar to float.

Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '3100.00' to data type int.

Any thousands separating commas would also throw an..error

Declare @x varchar(10) = '12,456'
SELECT CAST(@x as int) 

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Also spaces or empty strings '' may throw an error, although for some reason I can't replicate this on my SSMS 2012 box.

Hi Jim,

But I need to get all those records which has a value of less than 50

Declare @x varchar(10) = '12,456'
SELECT CAST(@x as int)

Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '12,456' to data type int.

Hi Jim, even a decimal value will give you an error..and this is what my problem is

Declare @x varchar(10) = '12.456'
SELECT CAST(@x as int)

Got it, and I have the same result in my 2012 box.
Give this a whirl, and before we're completely done we'll need to address rounding.

Declare @x varchar(10) = '12.456'
SELECT CASE
   WHEN ISNUMERIC(@x) = 1 THEN CAST(CAST(@x as numeric(19,4)) as int)
   ELSE NULL end

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SELECT cast (cast (replace (column_name, ',', '') as float) as integer) from mytable;

to test:

  SELECT cast (cast (replace ('12,345.99', ',', '') as float) as integer)

Hi Jim, that worked.. Please give me the condition now to filter less than 50 which looks better

Explain 'filter less than 50'.

Jim, what I meant was , can you please provide me with a working query like above which give me the data where the values are less than 50

>where the values are less than 50
Okay, that would be a simple WHERE clause.  To avoid duplicating all of the CAST I'll throw it in a subquery...

SELECT a.column_name
FROM (
   SELECT CASE
      WHEN ISNUMERIC(column_name) = 1 THEN CAST(CAST(column_name as numeric(19,4)) as int)
      ELSE NULL end as column_name
   FROM your_table) a
WHERE a.column_name < 50

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Try

select cast(replace('9,10,223,345.99',',','') as decimal(18,3))

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well, the solution should work for any conditions...less than or greater than should not really matter...

Good