I'm surprised at the lack of response to this article and votes for it over the last year. This is pretty important for optimization. I think the best advice from...

Ha! I knew it has to be somewhere. Guess my search needed to be "multivalue" and not multi parameter. Try as I might to search it always comes down to...

I think that the orginal article is a classic mistake. I didn't see the error at first because the issue with the column name distracted me, it is odd that...

Well actually it's

declare @s-2 nvarchar(40), @sval int

set @s-2 = 'select @sval = 0x2C'

exec master.dbo.sp_executesql @s-2, N'@sval int out', @sval out

select @sval

And it works...

I need to be able to pass a varchar field into a function to get back the decimal. All my data is stored in a varchar field due to the...

I tried that one, I couldn't get it to go back into a string. Thanks for the help.

I decided to start from scratch on this and find out how to manually convert the a hex number to a decimal. There was a great article about this on...