SQL - safely downcast BIGINT to INT

Question

I have a CSV I\'m importing into our database. One of the \"columns\" contains data that should be an INT but some rows have numbers that only fall in the BIGINT ra

Answer 1

Add these to your script:

SET ARITHABORT OFF;
SET ARITHIGNORE ON;

This will convert any overflow values to NULL.

More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms184341.aspx