'Error converting data type varchar to int' : Solution

Here is the solution to this error message if anyone gets one in the future...It took me about two days to figure out.

This error occurs if you save your stored procedure before execute it. Always execute first before you save. If you save before executing, the server will store its own defaults, usually integers.

This error aslo occurs if your datatypes do not match when passing values from code into the variables of a stored procedure.

It also occurs if the datatypes in your sql file do not match those of the original stored procedure.

You can check to see if the file saved in the "Projects" folder matches with the original by doing the following:

Expand Database, Expand Programmability, Expand Stored Procedures, Expand (Your Stored Procedure), Expand Parameters. Read the datatypes that are revealed in the tree.

Then go to File>Open>Projects>(save sql file). Click open.

View the datatypes in the file. If the datatypes in the file do not match the datatypes in the tree, what you must do to correct, as one solution, is delete both the file and stored procedure.

Then create a new stored procedure by right clicking the stored procedure node. Rewrite the store procedure, execute and then save. Everything should be okay.

Hi,

Thanks that you come back to the forums and want to give something of your solution to your actual problem back.

But I don′t know what your actual problem was (as you did not mentioned it clearly). Perhaps we could summarize this a bit more like Problem: xxxx, Solution: xxx. But from the information given I cannot tell what your actual problem was. I can′t even see why you do all the saves and deletes :-) ?

Jens K. Suessmeyer.

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