How to sum in a bigint instead of an int
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I have a Query, where I SELECT SUM(A.MINUTES) from....
The variable A.minutes is defined as an INT
Problem is, that I now and Again gets an aritmic overflow here, because sum(A.Minutes) can be pretty huge
So, How to get the sum into an BIGINT instead.
To change 'A.Minutes' to BIGINT is not an option unfortunately
Best regards
Edvard Korsbæk
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edvard 19773 (7/4/2013)
I have a Query, where I SELECT SUM(A.MINUTES) from....The variable A.minutes is defined as an INT
Problem is, that I now and Again gets an aritmic overflow here, because sum(A.Minutes) can be pretty huge
So, How to get the sum into an BIGINT instead.
To change 'A.Minutes' to BIGINT is not an option unfortunately
Best regards
Edvard Korsbæk
I would try
SUM(CAST(A.Minutes AS BIGINT))Godspeed
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I would do the same!
Works like a charm
Thanks!
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This might work too.
WITH BigInts (n) AS (SELECT CAST(9223372036854775807 AS BIGINT)UNION ALL SELECT CAST(9223372036854775807 AS BIGINT))SELECT SUM(CAST(n AS DECIMAL(38,0)))FROM BigInts
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