Concatinating date and string

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Concatinating date and string

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February 11, 2014 at 11:22 am

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Dear Experts
I trying to insert an int value as a result from concatenation between date and string in sql 2008
insert into customer (custid,fname,sname,serial) values
(6,'Ibrahim','Mohamed' ,(select cast ( (YEAR(getdate())+'0000000')AS int)))
it works but with out the concatenation
any help how to make it works
Thanks lot

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 1

The problem is that '0000000' is being converted to int and adding it to the year. Instead of converting th char and then to int, I would just use some basic math.

insert into customer (custid,fname,sname,serial) values

(6,'Ibrahim','Mohamed' ,(YEAR(getdate())*10000000))

Luis C.
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zi SSCrazy Points: 2387 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for replying

but this error raised

Msg 8115, Level 16, State 2, Line 1

Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type int.

The statement has been terminated.

ChrisM@home SSC-Insane Points: 24260 More actions · Answer 3

Convert it to BIGINT.

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 4

Then you'll need to cast as bigint before multiplying.

(CAST( YEAR(getdate()) AS bigint) *10000000)

Why do you need a value like this anyway? What's your serial column data type?

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 5

Luis Cazares (2/11/2014)
The problem is that '0000000' is being converted to int and adding it to the year. Instead of converting th char and then to int, I would just use some basic math.
insert into customer (custid,fname,sname,serial) values
(6,'Ibrahim','Mohamed' ,(YEAR(getdate())*10000000))

Still seems a little weird to me but you can do it like this.

cast(YEAR(getdate()) as char(4)) + REPLICATE('0', 6)

I used REPLICATE instead of '000000'. Makes it easier to see what the value is. 😉

--EDIT--

I meant to copy the OP but got bitten by the quote bug and it had Luis' quote instead.

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zi SSCrazy Points: 2387 More actions · Answer 6

zi

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February 11, 2014 at 12:02 pm

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Thank you very much, it works