Try using a format file since your data file only has 4 columns. Otherwise, try OPENROWSET or use a staging table. myTestFormatFiles.Fmt may look like: 9.0 4 1 SQLINT 0 3 “,” 1 StudentNo “” 2 SQLCHAR 0 100 “,” 2 FirstName SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS 3 SQLCHAR 0 100 “,” 3 LastName SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS 4 SQLINT 0 4 … Read more
You can try it this way:
Assuming that you’re on SQL Server 2005 or greater, you can use a CTE with ROW_NUMBER():
The reason you are getting the DECLARE error from your dynamic statement is because dynamic statements are handled in separate batches, which boils down to a matter of scope. While there may be a more formal definition of the scopes available in SQL Server, I’ve found it sufficient to generally keep the following three in … Read more
In order to avoid such error you could use CASE + ISNUMERIC to handle scenarios when you cannot convert to int.Change To Basically this is saying if you cannot convert me to int assign value of 0 (in my example) Alternatively you can look at this article about creating a custom function that will check … Read more
You do not need to interact with managed code, as you can use LIKE: As your expression ends with + you can go with ‘%[^a-z0-9 .][^a-z0-9 .]%’ EDIT:To make it clear: SQL Server doesn’t support regular expressions without managed code. Depending on the situation, the LIKE operator can be an option, but it lacks the flexibility that regular expressions provides.
Or if you want to go old-school: You can also use float(53), but it means the same thing as float. (“real” is equivalent to float(24), not float/float(53).) The decimal(x,y) SQL Server type is for when you want exact decimal numbers rather than floating point (which can be approximations). This is in contrast to the C# “decimal” data type, which … Read more
Add a WHERE clause
Should do what you need. Test Case Returns