SQL's CAST () function is similar to CONVERT (); it lacks the date formatting capabilities CONVERT () has, but otherwise works in a similar fashion. The following SQL statement converts integer ...

The last column shows the result of a Visual Basic CLR function ToDecimal, included in the code download, to convert from text to decimal as an alternative to the CAST function. The advantage is that ...

The stored procedure was performing a calculation on a SQL Server column of type nvarchar (50), using the SQL Server ISNUMERIC function to determine which text values could safely be included in the ...