Change Data Type

I received a db2 data file that I converted to MS-Access. From Access I
ran the upsize wizard to put the tabel in SQL. It put the table in ok
but all the data types are nvarchar. I have a couple of the fields that
are cureny and some that are numeric.

I need to change the data types from nvarchar to numeric type fields. I
am new to SQL so I do not know all the commands. How do I change the
data type?

Michael Charney

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>I received a db2 data file that I converted to MS-Access. From Access I
> ran the upsize wizard to put the tabel in SQL. It put the table in ok
> but all the data types are nvarchar. I have a couple of the fields that
> are cureny and some that are numeric.
> I need to change the data types from nvarchar to numeric type fields. I
> am new to SQL so I do not know all the commands. How do I change the
> data type?
> Michael Charney
> *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***

Cast from string to date

I created an SSIS package that pulls in legacy data from a DB2 AS400. There is an In Date field that is stored on the AS400 as OdbcType.Date or DATE. However, when I use SSIS to pull in the data, SQL wants it to be a string so I gave up and let SQL have it's way.

Now in my SELECT statement, I have this:

SELECT TLMST.TLNUMBER, TLMST.DOGNAM, BRDMST.BRDesc, TLMST.INDT
FROM TLMST INNER JOIN
BRDMST ON TLMST.BRDCOD = BRDMST.BreedNumber
WHERE (TLMST.INDT >= @.startdate) AND (TLMST.INDT <= @.enddate)
ORDER BY TLMST.INDT, TLMST.TLNUMBER

Because I see the dates stored in TLMST are yyyy-mm-dd format, this is not working. It is not pulling any records. I tried to use the CAST statement but I keep getting errors about casting from a string to a date and data overflow errors.

Should I go back and re-do the SSIS or is there a way to pull the records for this? Thanks for the information

Do a Conversion task in SSIS, with either chopping the values from the string to create a vlid date like yyyymmdd or use the format function with that.

HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.

http://www.sqlserver2005.de|||When you create your source in your data flow, what is the data type SSIS has set for the column. You can find this out by right clicking on the source and selecting advanced editor and then selecting the input and output properties. In there you can expand the input tree to find the data type for the date column.|||The advanced editor is showing the data type as string, however on the AS400 it is of type OdbcType.Date. But that is on the AS400 side which I am not too familiar with.|||In which case follow Jens advice to split the date passed and build a string that is of the correct format