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cplusplus
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Posted - 12/30/2012 :  10:22:30  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
How to convert a varchar number to decimal with max length 7.

select emp_no from employee;

emp_no is available in varchar format, now want to convert to decimal.
decimal(7,0).
example of empnos can be: 320, 7880, 123890, 3425678

Thanks a lot for the helpful info.

sodeep
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USA
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Posted - 12/30/2012 :  10:34:34  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Why Decimal?? Can't you convert to int?
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ScottPletcher
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Posted - 12/31/2012 :  11:52:49  Show Profile  Reply with Quote

If you're sure the value is numeric, you can CAST it to the desired data type:

CAST(column_name AS decimal(7, 0))
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visakh16
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Posted - 01/01/2013 :  23:56:17  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
decimal with scale value of 0 is as good as integer


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