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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004365 More actions · Answer 1

You bet. Thank you for the feedback.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

srividhya-417040 SSC Rookie Points: 40 More actions · Answer 2

Hi Jeff,

I encountered a similar problem again, but the same method is not solving a problem.In this there is a table with decimal values and few character value, i have to take the decimal values and sort them and leave them if it is a character type. The column name is asset_tagprefix .

SELECT

* from _asset

ORDER BY CASE

WHEN asset_tagprefix LIKE '[^0-9]%'

THEN asset_tagprefix

ELSE STR(CAST(asset_tagprefix AS decimal(7,4)),20)

END

when i tried using the above query i got the following error message

Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric.

Kindly help.

Kindest Regards,

sree

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004365 More actions · Answer 3

You know the drill, Sree... "Show me the data".

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)