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balasach82

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:36 AM

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Is it possible to insert into a 9-byte decimal field (with allow nulls) a value of "+________" , i.e., spaces from 2 to 9th byte. If there is "+0 ", then it gets loaded into the field. Tried loading with all 9-bytes as spaces, even then it gives "Error converting data type nvarchar to numeric". Is there no way to insert spaces or "+ "?

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varunfilim

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:15 AM

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Can u please make it clear?

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GilaMonster

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 2:29 AM

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There is no way. Decimal is a numeric field, it can store numbers only and anything inserted into it is converted to a numeric representation. A space is not a number and cannot be stored in a numeric field.

What are you trying to do? It sounds like formatting, and that's something that typically should be done in queries, not in the data.

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balasach82

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:41 AM

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am trying to load a Text file to a table through SSIS. Usually, the decimal column in text file would have say "+23456789" or "-23456789". Presently, the file has "+--------" i.e. only "+" is existing with the other bytes being white spaces.

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GilaMonster

Posted Thursday, August 19, 2010 7:50 AM

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Add a derived column transform in SSIS where you remove the spaces from the data. I think there's a replace function in there. Either replace ' ' with '' or replace ' ' with '0'

The + is not a problem, it's just the spaces.

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