Question

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[AmendInsertDuplicateFields] (@ReportID varchar(50))
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @NewReportID VARCHAR(50)
    SET @NewReportID = NEWID()

    INSERT INTO [MVCOmar].[dbo].[PrideMVCCollisionBegin]
           ([ReportID], [LocalIncidentNum], [version], [MTOReferenceNo], [Submitted]) 
       SELECT 
          @NewReportID, [LocalIncidentNum], [version], [MTOReferenceNo], [Submitted] 
       FROM 
          [MVCOmar].[dbo].[PrideMVCCollisionBegin] 
       WHERE 
          [ReportID] = @ReportID;

I would like to take the result that I get for version, convert it from string to int type, add one, convert back to string, and store it.

I acknowledge that version should be int and not string type. I also acknowledge that an even better method of accomplishing this would be to set properties to increment by one.

I can’t do either of those option for the time being because my priorities are different right now, I am time limited, the code is very old, and written by numerous people which carried poor coding habits.

Answer 1

you don’t need to convert it, run this, there will be an implicit conversion

SELECT '1' + 1

That returns 2

In your case you can just do [version] + 1