Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '099.0' to data type int.

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Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '099.0' to data type int.

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February 26, 2014 at 6:58 am

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Neil Burton SSC-Insane Points: 22904 More actions · Answer 1

vsamuel (2/26/2014)
I have this script below which initially could execute without problems. Now its giving me this error: "Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '099.0' to data type int.
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I'm not sure but I think, '099.0' won't be recognised as an integer because of either the preceding 0 and\or the following decimal point. Int has to be a whole number.

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homebrew01 SSC Guru Points: 55539 More actions · Answer 2

Perhaps you could declare a variable as DECIMAL(10,2) then set the INT column to the value in the decimal variable... a 2 step conversion.

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February 26, 2014 at 7:42 am

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Many thanks, I have done that and its working

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 4

You need to look up sql injection. Your code is pretty much a text book case of vulnerable to sql injection.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 5

I have a feeling too that you could make this entire thing into a few insert statements with no dynamic sql and no looping. It is so hard to read.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 6

I am pretty sure you could get rid of the dynamic sql at the very least. Isn't this this same thing for Check 1?

/* check 1 */

IF @Check1 is null

insert into Discrepancies

(

FormName,

IDNumber,

VisitDate,

ErrorDetail,

ErrVarName1,

Status

)

select @FormName,

@PatientID,

@VisitDate,

'enr_first cannot be null',

'enr_first',

'Open'

where not exists

(

select *

from Discrepancies

where FormName = @FormName

and IDNumber = @PatientID

and VisitDate = @VisitDate

and ErrorDetail = @ErrorDetail

)

It is hard to figure out exactly what your code is doing but I think the loop would be fairly easy to get rid of too.

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Sean Lange (2/26/2014)
It is hard to figure out exactly what your code is doing but I think the loop would be fairly easy to get rid of too.

And now it's harder because the code is gone.

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Luis Cazares (2/26/2014)
Sean Lange (2/26/2014)
It is hard to figure out exactly what your code is doing but I think the loop would be fairly easy to get rid of too.
And now it's harder because the code is gone.

Well I guess they "fixed" the issue and don't want to learn that the way they are doing it is far from optimal.

Too bad because this would be a great chance for the OP to learn a LOT about how to handle this type of thing.

I copied the original code before the OP removed it. I generally quote posts to avoid the code being removed. Unless the OP comes back and wants to fix the nightmarish dynamic sql I guess we will have to assume they are satisfied.

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