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convert scientific notation to to decimal

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I am importing a bunch of data which is all in varchar format which I cast into the relevant type on transfer to the production table. One of these columns contains decimals, but some of them are occasionally given in scientific notation (3.48E-02).
I am using

CAST (v1 AS decimal(18, 13))

to do the conversion, but that seems to be unable to handle the scientific notation. Does anyone know a way around this?
Dec 8 '06 #1
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Try converting to float first, like this:
CAST (CAST (v1 AS float(24)) AS decimal(18, 13))
Mar 7 '07 #2

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