Error converting data type varchar

Question

I currently have a table with a column as varchar. This column can hold numbers or text. During certain queries I treat it as a bigint column (I do

Answer 1

Try changing your view to this :

SELECT TOP 100 PERCENT ID, 
Cast(Case When IsNumeric(MyCol) = 1 Then MyCol Else null End AS bigint) AS MyCol
FROM MyTable
WHERE (IsNumeric(MyCol) = 1)