Question

I am doing this query in a stored procedure: SELECT TOP 1 [Employe] FROM Transactions WHERE [Employe]=@Name AND Date=@Date

It is supposed to return an employee ID (int). In my application (ASP.NET C#) I get this error when, with a DataReader, I read a line:
*Conversion failed when converting the varchar value * to data type int. *

What exactly is the type * ? And I am not trying to convert anything.

Answer 1

Most likely you are passing @Name parameter as a varchar where Employe field is an int field.

Or you could be trying to assign your resulting value of Employe to an int datatype then you would be seeing this error.

Please post your Transactions table definition and your stored procedure code to further troubleshoot.