From BOL:. In Transact-SQL statements, a constant with a decimal point is automatically converted into a numeric data value, using the minimum precision and scale necessary.

Jan 13, 2011 · My guess is that you're trying to squeeze a number greater than 99999.99 into your decimal fields. Changing it to (8,3) isn't going to do anything if it's greater than 99999.999 - you need to increase the number of digits before the decimal.

Nov 15, 2023 · Here's at least one issue: CONVERT(VARCHAR(8),CONVERT(DECIMAL(8,4)) The Decimal(8,4) indicates 8 numeric digits, 4 to the right of the decimal.

Sep 3, 2019 · When you specify numeric(10,4) you are telling SQL Server to use a precision of 10 i.e. the number of digits stored from both sides of the decimal point and a scale of 4 i.e 4 digits to the right of the decimal point.

Aug 29, 2011 · I am facing an error on my SQL script: Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric select x.MemberName,x.DOB,x.FilePath,x.Medication,x.NDC,x ...

Passing @Time_ms directly avoids the decimal->string->decimal conversion. It's also more efficient; when @Time_ms changes, the server can still reuse the execution plan instead of generating a new one.

You have two options here: One is to expand the size of the VALUE field in the table #GP_WGENSVCTH.Obviously the decimal(10,3) is not large enough to hold the value you are trying to insert.

Sep 15, 2014 · If you use a string function, which is what LEFT is, it resturns a string value. As described here, the return datatype of the LEFT function does indeed return a VARCHAR or NVARCHAR.

Precision and scale are often misunderstood. In numeric(3,2) you want 3 digits overall, but 2 to the right of the decimal.

Nov 4, 2014 · The NUMERIC(6,2) indicates total 6 digits and out of which 2 are decimal places. you have a value like 1234.66 then total characters needed is 7