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bvesperman
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:17 AM
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I agree that this doesn't work. I was pretty sure it wasn't going to do an implicit conversion. Then I cut and pasted it into a query and executed it. And I was proven right. It failed. No results were returned. An error was returned. It things like this that makes me not try to read or follow information from sites like this one. Is there a setting in MSSQL that allows implicit conversion? I hope not. My databases need to maintain data integrity, and if implicit conversions are happening I can't trust my databases.
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:25 AM
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bvesperman (5/5/2008)
I agree that this doesn't work. I was pretty sure it wasn't going to do an implicit conversion. Then I cut and pasted it into a query and executed it. And I was proven right. It failed. No results were returned. An error was returned. It things like this that makes me not try to read or follow information from sites like this one. Is there a setting in MSSQL that allows implicit conversion? I hope not. My databases need to maintain data integrity, and if implicit conversions are happening I can't trust my databases.
Yes, implicit conversions happen.
It's not a problem, if you know how they work. Books Online has exact data on what they do and why and how.
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:29 AM
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That is not a compilation error. It's a run-time error when a conversion occurs. There are very few compilation errors, mostly syntax issues.
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bitbucket-25253
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 8:56 AM
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AS previously stated:
dunnjoe (5/5/2008)
That's why I feel answer b is not correct. Answer b says the value is converted to an int. The error message says the conversion failed. So, it appears to be a compilation error.
Unfortunately I came to the same conclusion ... the statement did NOT execute ... other than the error message
Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'B' to data type int.
There were NO values returned!!
Still a good QOD just a bad wording of possible answers ... to the detriment of many of us
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 9:13 AM
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Steve Jones - Editor (5/5/2008)
That is not a compilation error. It's a run-time error when a conversion occurs. There are very few compilation errors, mostly syntax issues.
In my humble opinion the answer
The varchar is converted in int (error results)
should have been
The varchar is not converted into int (run time error results)
Since this union statement will work (no run time error)
select '10'
Union
Select 4
and this will compile
CREATE PROCEDURE Dbo.Oops
AS
select 'B'
Union
Select 4
but will result in the run time error when invoked.
Oh well looking back now .... I have gained knowledge from the QOD and that is its objective.
Thanks Steve for making think even more
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Trace Herrell-425305
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 12:40 PM
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This will not compile in SQL 2005....
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'B' to data type int.
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srienstr
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 1:27 PM
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Trace Herrell (5/5/2008)
This will not compile in SQL 2005....
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'B' to data type int.
On the contrary, it did compile but it encountered an error when it ran. If you mistyped and put in "Skelect 'B' ..." it would not compile. Conversion failure is a runtime error, in this case because a varchar 'B' can't be converted to int. The compiler doesn't check to make sure you won't run into data type errors.
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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 4:13 PM
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I feel the same way, in addition note the wording:
This is an example of an implicit conversion. In this case, an error is returned as the varchar is converted to an int, or an attempt is made, which returns an error. The int is of higher precedence than a varchar, so that is the order of conversions.
What is it converted and when error says failed to convert and then you say varchar IS converted to an int and then you say OR attempt is made?
Which one is it?
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rodjkidd
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Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:48 AM
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That will teach me for speed reading the answers - missed the (error results) at the end of answer two! So picked answer 3! My bad...
(But at least I knew it wouldn't work!)
Rodney
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john.arnott
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Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 9:13 AM
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Excellent question in that to understand the result, you have to step through the entire process.
--The statements compile.
--Each "select" is executed.
--Then the two result sets are combined to effect the Union. That's where the error occurs.
That's why even though the alpha character "B" was earlier in the code, the
execution
tried to convert it to the higher precedence integer type to satisfy the column type forced by the later value "4".
The compiler couldn't catch this as it won't look at the values, only the datatypes. If the character input had been a digit (in quotes), it would run. This works:
select '3'
union
select 4
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