Comments on: SQL SERVER – Denali – Conversion Function – PARSE() – A Quick Introduction

By: Himanshu Gupta

Himanshu Gupta — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 04:36:41 +0000

Just tell me what’s Mark Landry

By: Durga Prasad

Durga Prasad — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:03:52 +0000

Yes Mark! This is right situation where we need to switch to PARSE()

By: Durga Prasad

Durga Prasad — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:02:51 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Thanks for posting the concept of PARSE() function. It is really needed in a situation where Mark Landry has mentioned.

By: Himanshu Gupta

Himanshu Gupta — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:48:06 +0000

I don’t see any diff between Cast And Parse.Please tell where to give it priority other then old cast functions.

By: Himanshu Gupta

Himanshu Gupta — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:37:52 +0000

I don’t see any diff between Cast And Parse

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:31:16 +0000

The only thing is that you should be using Denali version

By: Ganesh

Ganesh — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:12:56 +0000

what are the prerequisites to use above function in sql server

By: Mark Landry

Mark Landry — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 19:45:49 +0000

Everybody is asking about the difference between Parse, Cast, and Convert. On a 2008 box, I get an error when trying to run a conversion of a string to an integer as shown below. Am I doing something wrong/missing something, or is everybody thinking of converting money to an integer, rather than a string to an integer?

The first segment works fine; the second does not. I believe the errors in the second segment are the target for the PARSE function, right?

DECLARE @money money, @varchar varchar(6), @int int
SELECT @money = ’100.00′
SELECT @int = cast(@money as int)
SELECT @money, @int
SELECT @int = convert(int,@money)
SELECT @money, @int

DECLARE @money money, @varchar varchar(6), @int int
SELECT @varchar = ’100.00′
–SELECT @int = cast(@varchar as int)
–Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 3 Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ’100.00′ to data type int.
SELECT @int = convert(int,@varchar)
–Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 5 Conversion failed when converting the varchar value ’100.00′ to data type int.

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:01:48 +0000

It is same. Parse() is just like cast or convert.

By: Rahul Dewada

Rahul Dewada — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:44:38 +0000

Parse() is work same like Cast(). What is difference between these two functions?

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By: shatrughna kumar

shatrughna kumar — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 16:31:14 +0000

I was not aware about this function in SQL.
Thanks for sharing with us.
Nice post.

By: Raghav

Raghav — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:55:58 +0000

Thankyou Sir for this valuable post. Waiting for the post on next two functions.

By: Partha Pratim Dinda

Partha Pratim Dinda — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 07:01:52 +0000

Hi pinal,
Thanks for sharing this concept.Can you elaborate your post that means where to use it and what is its advantage over cast/convert.
I will wait for your post regarding TRY_PARSE() and
TRY_CONVERT().

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:31:22 +0000

HI Pinal ,
Nice post . Can u tell me what is the difference b/w old Cast /Convert to that of the new function Parse in Denali ?..

By: Varinder Sandhu

Varinder Sandhu — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:44:49 +0000

Thanks for sharing Pinal

This is really new function that i learned in sql

waiting for next article on TRY_PARSE() and TRY_CONVERT()

By: Rob Kellington (@kellington)

Rob Kellington (@kellington) — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 02:09:15 +0000

What does Parse() offer beyond what Cast/Convert do? The examples don’t seem to show any difference.
I had been hoping that eventually MS would offer a function similar to Oracle’s that lets me define the layout as a parameter. Example: Parse(‘May 21 11′,’MMM DD YY’).