• Are you sure all the values in the column are numeric?

    While it's not perfect, try using ISNUMERIC and see if there are any columns that it considers not numbers.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
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