I’m trying to get a stored procedure to work for a co-worker who is out sick (and thus can’t be asked for guidance).
I have a SQL Server 2005 database that has this exact procedure, and I’m trying to make the scripts to convert a test database to match this dev database. My script has several lines like:
CAST(RELATIVE_ERROR_RATIO AS FLOAT), CAST(REPORTING_LIMIT AS FLOAT), The procedure is essentially doing an ‘insert into table (all the fields) from another table where field = @input’
When I run the script, I get the error:
CAST or CONVERT: invalid attributes specified for type 'float' and the procedure is not created. But, I’ve compared the source tables in both the dev and test environments, and they match exactly. And the procedure exists exactly as scripted in the dev environment.
I can’t ask my co-worker if he had to do any special acrobatics to create this script, so I’m asking you. I’ve done some searching, and see that perhaps float should be of the form FLOAT(6,1) (or some such), but that’s NOT what he has, and I’m not comfortable changing the test environment so that it won’t really match dev.
Added
The commenter is correct. I’ve been told that the error is with the following cast:
CAST(TRACER_YIELD AS FLOAT(10,3)), I could post the entire query, but it’s a long one! So, instead, I’ll just include the casted fields, and the first and last field. I’d like to ask my co-worker if that one field was a mistake, and it just needed a straight cast. He’ll be back next monday, so it may need to wait that long.
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[our_LOAD_INPUT] @ourNUMBER INT AS INSERT INTO our_FILE (our_NUMBER, DILUTION_FACTOR, DISTILLATION_VOLUME, MAXIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT, MDA, MINIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT, NUMBER_OF_TICS_FOUND, PERCENT_MOISTURE, PERCENT_RECOVERY, PERCENT_SOLIDS, RELATIVE_ERROR_RATIO, REPORTING_LIMIT, REQUIRED_DETECTION_LIMIT, RER_MAX, RESULT, RETENTION_TIME, RPD, RPD_MAXIMUM, SAMPLE_ALIQUOT_SIZE, SPIKE_CONCENTRATION, TOTAL_PROPAGATED_UNCERTAINTY, TRACER_YIELD, TWO_SIGMA_COUNTING_ERROR, VERSION) SELECT FILE_NUMBER, CAST(DILUTION_FACTOR AS FLOAT), CAST(DISTILLATION_VOLUME AS FLOAT), CAST(MAXIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT AS FLOAT), CAST(MDA AS FLOAT), CAST(MINIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT AS FLOAT), CAST(NUMBER_OF_TICS_FOUND AS FLOAT), CAST(PERCENT_MOISTURE AS FLOAT), CAST(PERCENT_RECOVERY AS FLOAT), CAST(PERCENT_SOLIDS AS FLOAT), CAST(RELATIVE_ERROR_RATIO AS FLOAT), CAST(REPORTING_LIMIT AS FLOAT), CAST(REQUIRED_DETECTION_LIMIT AS FLOAT), CAST(RER_MAX AS FLOAT), CAST(RESULT AS FLOAT), CAST(RETENTION_TIME AS FLOAT), CAST(RPD AS FLOAT), CAST(RPD_MAXIMUM AS FLOAT), CAST(SAMPLE_ALIQUOT_SIZE AS FLOAT), CAST(SPIKE_CONCENTRATION AS FLOAT), CAST(TOTAL_PROPAGATED_UNCERTAINTY AS FLOAT), CAST(TRACER_YIELD AS FLOAT(10,3)), CAST(TWO_SIGMA_COUNTING_ERROR AS FLOAT), VERSION FROM our_FILE_CHAR WHERE our_NUMBER = @ourNUMBER GO our_File_CHAR is defined as
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[our_FILE_CHAR] ( [our_NUMBER] [int] NOT NULL, [DILUTION_FACTOR] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [DISTILLATION_VOLUME] [varchar] (5) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [MAXIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [MDA] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [MINIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [NUMBER_OF_TICS_FOUND] [varchar] (2) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [PERCENT_MOISTURE] [varchar] (5) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [PERCENT_RECOVERY] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [PERCENT_SOLIDS] [varchar] (5) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [RELATIVE_ERROR_RATIO] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [REPORTING_LIMIT] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [REQUIRED_DETECTION_LIMIT] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [RER_MAX] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [RESULT] [varchar] (13) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [RETENTION_TIME] [varchar] (6) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [RPD] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [RPD_MAXIMUM] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [SAMPLE_ALIQUOT_SIZE] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [SPIKE_CONCENTRATION] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [TOTAL_PROPAGATED_UNCERTAINTY] [varchar] (13) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [TRACER_YIELD] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [TWO_SIGMA_COUNTING_ERROR] [varchar] (10) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL, [VERSION] [varchar] (2) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL ) our_File is defined as
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[our_FILE] ( [our_NUMBER] [int] NOT NULL, [DILUTION_FACTOR] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [DISTILLATION_VOLUME] [numeric] (5, 1) NULL, [MAXIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [MDA] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [MINIMUM_CONTROL_LIMIT] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [NUMBER_OF_TICS_FOUND] [numeric] (2, 0) NULL, [PERCENT_MOISTURE] [numeric] (5, 1) NULL, [PERCENT_RECOVERY] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [PERCENT_SOLIDS] [numeric] (5, 1) NULL, [RELATIVE_ERROR_RATIO] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [REPORTING_LIMIT] [numeric] (10, 2) NULL, [REQUIRED_DETECTION_LIMIT] [numeric] (10, 2) NULL, [RER_MAX] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [RESULT] [numeric] (13, 3) NULL, [RETENTION_TIME] [numeric] (6, 2) NULL, [RPD] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [RPD_MAXIMUM] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [SAMPLE_ALIQUOT_SIZE] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [SPIKE_CONCENTRATION] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [TOTAL_PROPAGATED_UNCERTAINTY] [numeric] (13, 3) NULL, [TRACER_YIELD] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [TWO_SIGMA_COUNTING_ERROR] [numeric] (10, 3) NULL, [VERSION] [varchar] (2) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL )
(I can’t accept my own answer, but this was the solution that worked for me.)
If I change the one offending line from
to
it works.
Will it work properly?
Update: It was an error by the original programmer. So the change to not specify the decimal places (as shown above) is what he intended, and should work properly.