Question

I have a DataTable populated with the following columns, UPC, NUMBER, DESCRIPTION, BRAND, UOM, GROUP, TOTAL_DOLLARS, TOTAL_UNITS, and DATE. They are all of type String except for Date, which is already in DateTime format.

I would like to either–

1. (Ideally) write this DataTable to a SQL Server Database Table
2. Copy this DataTable to another DataTable

–while converting all of the values in the TOTAL_DOLLARS column to Decimal and all of the values in the TOTAL_UNITS column to Int32. Note that there are no null values, so that shouldn’t be an issue.

Can this be done?

Thanks!

Answer 1

If values can be converteted without additional chances:

Select UPC, NUMBER, DESCRIPTION, BRAND, UOM, [GROUP], Cast(TOTAL_DOLLARS as Decimal(38,17)) as TOTAL_DOLLARS, Cast(TOTAL_UNITS as int) as TOTAL_UNITS, DATE
Into NewTable
From OldTable