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

I'm not sure this is the best answer but it is one I came up with earlier on my own. It is possible to catch the exception/error and gracefully continue execution.

Example:

DECLARE @UserIDBigInt BIGINT = 9723021913;
DECLARE @UserID INT;
BEGIN TRY
    SET @UserID = @UserIDBigInt;
END TRY BEGIN CATCH
END CATCH

IF @UserID IS NULL BEGIN
    SELECT 'Handle it as unreliable data'
    RETURN
END

SELECT 'Handle it as reliable data'