I got date conversion error

  • Dear colleagues,
    I got a very peculiar situation. Here is my code:

    Declare @startdate as datetime
    Declare @enddate as datetime
    Declare @newfee as money
    DeclaRE @oldfee as money
    Set @startdate = '2014-09-01'
    Set @enddate = '2017-08-31'
    Set @newfee = 595.00
    Set @oldfee = 795.00

    select
    n.ID as IndID,
    n.FULL_NAME,
    u.YAB,
    CASE WHEN n.MEMBER_TYPE IN('NLS','SFI','SFINL','SI','SIF') THEN 'Sponsor' ELSE 'Nonsponsor' END as Sponsor,
    CASE WHEN ((select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) < 0) THEN 0 ELSE (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) END as "3-Year Spending",
    CASE
         WHEN DATEDIFF(YEAR, CAST(ISNULL(u.YAB,'2000') As Datetime), @enddate) < 3
         THEN (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) / (DATEDIFF(YEAR,CAST(ISNULL(u.YAB,'2000') As Datetime),@enddate))
         ELSE (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where BT_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) / 3 END as average_annual,
    n.WORK_PHONE,
    n.EMAIL
    from Name as n --inner join Orders as o on n.ID = o.BT_ID
    /*
        CROSS APPLY (SELECT TOP 1 *
          FROM BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive ba
          WHERE ba.ClientID = n.ID
          ORDER BY StartDate DESC) as b --on n.ID = b.clientID
    */
        INNER JOIN UD_Indiv_Data as u on n.ID = u.ID
        --LEFT OUTER JOIN BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive as b on n.ID = b.clientID
    where n.COMPANY_RECORD = 0
    and Len(RTrim(LTrim(n.Full_Name))) > 0
    and n.MEMBER_TYPE IN('NLS','SFI','SFINL','SI','SIF','NI','NIF','NL','SYSI','WEB')
    and n.Status = 'A'
    and (n.ID NOT IN(Select ClientID from BM_OnlinePass_Subscription) OR n.ID NOT IN(Select ClientID from BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive))

    In my case u.YAB has varchar datatype and sometimes has NULL value. What is peculiar this date conversion error I got when removed BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive table. When this table was in a query I did not get any error.
    Any idea why? Thank you.

  • rkordonsky 63916 - Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:26 AM

    Dear colleagues,
    I got a very peculiar situation. Here is my code:

    Declare @startdate as datetime
    Declare @enddate as datetime
    Declare @newfee as money
    DeclaRE @oldfee as money
    Set @startdate = '2014-09-01'
    Set @enddate = '2017-08-31'
    Set @newfee = 595.00
    Set @oldfee = 795.00

    select
    n.ID as IndID,
    n.FULL_NAME,
    u.YAB,
    CASE WHEN n.MEMBER_TYPE IN('NLS','SFI','SFINL','SI','SIF') THEN 'Sponsor' ELSE 'Nonsponsor' END as Sponsor,
    CASE WHEN ((select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) < 0) THEN 0 ELSE (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) END as "3-Year Spending",
    CASE
         WHEN DATEDIFF(YEAR, CAST(ISNULL(u.YAB,'2000') As Datetime), @enddate) < 3
         THEN (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) / (DATEDIFF(YEAR,CAST(ISNULL(u.YAB,'2000') As Datetime),@enddate))
         ELSE (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where BT_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) / 3 END as average_annual,
    n.WORK_PHONE,
    n.EMAIL
    from Name as n --inner join Orders as o on n.ID = o.BT_ID
    /*
        CROSS APPLY (SELECT TOP 1 *
          FROM BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive ba
          WHERE ba.ClientID = n.ID
          ORDER BY StartDate DESC) as b --on n.ID = b.clientID
    */
        INNER JOIN UD_Indiv_Data as u on n.ID = u.ID
        --LEFT OUTER JOIN BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive as b on n.ID = b.clientID
    where n.COMPANY_RECORD = 0
    and Len(RTrim(LTrim(n.Full_Name))) > 0
    and n.MEMBER_TYPE IN('NLS','SFI','SFINL','SI','SIF','NI','NIF','NL','SYSI','WEB')
    and n.Status = 'A'
    and (n.ID NOT IN(Select ClientID from BM_OnlinePass_Subscription) OR n.ID NOT IN(Select ClientID from BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive))

    In my case u.YAB has varchar datatype and sometimes has NULL value. What is peculiar this date conversion error I got when removed BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive table. When this table was in a query I did not get any error.
    Any idea why? Thank you.

    Here is the error I got: 
    Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 10 
    Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string.

  • What happens if you run the following query?

    SELECT YAB
    FROM UD_Indiv_Data
    WHERE YAB IS NOT NULL
    AND TRY_CAST( YAB AS DATETIME) IS NULL;

    If you get rows, then those rows are not valid dates.

    Luis C.
    General Disclaimer:
    Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

    How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2
  • Luis Cazares - Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:01 AM

    What happens if you run the following query?

    SELECT YAB
    FROM UD_Indiv_Data
    WHERE YAB IS NOT NULL
    AND TRY_CAST( YAB AS DATETIME) IS NULL;

    If you get rows, then those rows are not valid dates.

    I got the following error:
    Msg 242, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
    The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value.

  • Luis Cazares - Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:01 AM

    What happens if you run the following query?

    SELECT YAB
    FROM UD_Indiv_Data
    WHERE YAB IS NOT NULL
    AND TRY_CAST( YAB AS DATETIME) IS NULL;

    If you get rows, then those rows are not valid dates.

    Some of Rows contain empty string.

  • rkordonsky 63916 - Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:22 AM

    Luis Cazares - Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:01 AM

    What happens if you run the following query?

    SELECT YAB
    FROM UD_Indiv_Data
    WHERE YAB IS NOT NULL
    AND TRY_CAST( YAB AS DATETIME) IS NULL;

    If you get rows, then those rows are not valid dates.

    Some of Rows contain empty string.

    Technically, that's not an empty string. It might contain a blank character like CHAR(0).
    Here's an example:

    WITH UD_Indiv_Data AS(
      SELECT '' YAB UNION ALL
      SELECT ' ' YAB UNION ALL
      SELECT '20170115' YAB UNION ALL
      SELECT '156431564' YAB UNION ALL
      SELECT '20171301' YAB UNION ALL
      SELECT '20171211 12:23' YAB UNION ALL
      SELECT CHAR(0)
    )
    SELECT YAB,
      ASCII(YAB) AS FirstCharASCII,
      TRY_CAST( YAB AS DATETIME) AS DatetimeYAB
    FROM UD_Indiv_Data
    --WHERE YAB IS NOT NULL
    --AND TRY_CAST( YAB AS DATETIME) IS NULL;

    Luis C.
    General Disclaimer:
    Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

    How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2
  • rkordonsky 63916 - Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:26 AM

    Dear colleagues,
    I got a very peculiar situation. Here is my code:

    Declare @startdate as datetime
    Declare @enddate as datetime
    Declare @newfee as money
    DeclaRE @oldfee as money
    Set @startdate = '2014-09-01'
    Set @enddate = '2017-08-31'
    Set @newfee = 595.00
    Set @oldfee = 795.00

    select
    n.ID as IndID,
    n.FULL_NAME,
    u.YAB,
    CASE WHEN n.MEMBER_TYPE IN('NLS','SFI','SFINL','SI','SIF') THEN 'Sponsor' ELSE 'Nonsponsor' END as Sponsor,
    CASE WHEN ((select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) < 0) THEN 0 ELSE (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) END as "3-Year Spending",
    CASE
         WHEN DATEDIFF(YEAR, CAST(ISNULL(u.YAB,'2000') As Datetime), @enddate) < 3
         THEN (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where ST_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) / (DATEDIFF(YEAR,CAST(ISNULL(u.YAB,'2000') As Datetime),@enddate))
         ELSE (select SUM(TOTAL_PAYMENTS) from Orders where BT_ID = n.ID and ORDER_DATE BETWEEN @startdate and @enddate) / 3 END as average_annual,
    n.WORK_PHONE,
    n.EMAIL
    from Name as n --inner join Orders as o on n.ID = o.BT_ID
    /*
        CROSS APPLY (SELECT TOP 1 *
          FROM BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive ba
          WHERE ba.ClientID = n.ID
          ORDER BY StartDate DESC) as b --on n.ID = b.clientID
    */
        INNER JOIN UD_Indiv_Data as u on n.ID = u.ID
        --LEFT OUTER JOIN BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive as b on n.ID = b.clientID
    where n.COMPANY_RECORD = 0
    and Len(RTrim(LTrim(n.Full_Name))) > 0
    and n.MEMBER_TYPE IN('NLS','SFI','SFINL','SI','SIF','NI','NIF','NL','SYSI','WEB')
    and n.Status = 'A'
    and (n.ID NOT IN(Select ClientID from BM_OnlinePass_Subscription) OR n.ID NOT IN(Select ClientID from BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive))

    In my case u.YAB has varchar datatype and sometimes has NULL value. What is peculiar this date conversion error I got when removed BM_OnlinePass_Subscription_Archive table. When this table was in a query I did not get any error.
    Any idea why? Thank you.

    I'm pretty sure that the cause of the problem is that back when the CROSS APPLY was part of the query, it was effectively eliminating any rows where the YAB value was something other than a valid datetime string.   You'll either have to update those "offending values", or use TRY_CAST or TRY_CONVERT instead, and move the ISNULL function outside of that cast or convert.

    Steve (aka sgmunson) 🙂 🙂 🙂
    Rent Servers for Income (picks and shovels strategy)

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