Question

I have the following SQL statement:

select pc.*,au.UserName from ProspectsInCampaigns pc 
inner join prospects p on p.id=pc.prospectid 
inner join aspnet_Users au on STR(au.UserId)=pc.updatedby
WHERE p.id=1225982

The problem is, that the updatedby field in ProspectsInCampaigns contains either an empty string, or a string that is indeed a UUID.
In the above case I get the error:

Operand type clash: uniqueidentifier
is incompatible with float

How can I prevent that from happening?

Answer 1

Don’t compare the UUID to a float. Why are you doing that anyways?

You can consult this handy chart to know what conversions are allowed. If you can’t convert two datatypes to each other, you can’t compare them directly.

Hypothetically you could convert both to a string type like varchar but since it’s impossible to have a UUID match anything that can be a float there’s no point.

Edit:

More specifically, it looks like Userid is a UUID and the STR() function is specifically for converting float data to a string datatype.

Why are you trying to convert au.UserID anyway? If you have a UUID, compare it to the other UUID directly.