Select into not null sql server

Active 3 years, 7 months ago. Viewed times. Would it be possible to alter the created table afterwards? Or are there any reasons not to do it that way? You can use coalesce with some dummy value. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Which is… Sort of true. Msg , Level 16, State 0, Line 37 Could not create constraint or index. See previous errors. So how do we fix this? Or keep them around. Do some math. Whatever blows your hair back. Got a favorite use for a numbers table outside of string splitting or doing date math?

Let me know in the comments! I may write a follow up. See example below. It is essential that you avoid CAST. Test from sys. Sign in. United States English. Ask a question. Quick access. Also there is possibility that there will be multiple errors for a given row, so we need the output to include error1 and error2 etc.

We can't use case because then once one error is found the other cases won't be evaluated. So, if a. Error1 is null what kind of output do you want? Error1 is null, simply a white space or empty field. Otherwise the actually value should print for all the errors — Elizabeth. Elizabeth That's exactly what the above code does: If a. Error1 is null then an empty string '' is used in it's place. You can substitute '' with ' ' to get some white space.

Right, the above code is great - but doesn't the case statement work that if case1 is correct case2 isn't evaluated etc? I want all cases evaluated and all errors printed because its possible that there are multiple errors per line. Show 3 more comments.

It's weird how it doesn't exist some kind of!