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Converting negative value

Hi!

I have a large table width values like this:

000024634300
000-37500000
002783868891
000009603857
000-60000000
000001672396
000000195200
000010315112
000017000000

I need to convert the numbers into an integer-type field. Is this
possible with just native sql-commands? I don't want to make an
active-x script because it will be very slow on the large table.

Espen
Jul 20 '05 #1
1 2828
SELECT col,
CASE WHEN col LIKE '%-%' THEN -1 ELSE 1 END*
CAST(REPLACE(col,'-','') AS NUMERIC(12))
FROM SomeTable

The value 2,783,868,891 exceeds the maximum for an INTEGER column so I've
used NUMERIC here. You could also use BIGINT.

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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Jul 20 '05 #2

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