I have a spreadsheet that gets all values loaded into SQL Server. One of the fields in the spreadsheet happens to be money. Now in order for everything to be displayed correcctly - i added a field in my tbl with Money as DataType.
When i read the value from spreadsheet I pretty much store it as a String, such as this... "94259.4". When it get's inserted in sql server it looks like this "94259.4000". Is there a way for me to basically get rid of the 0's in the sql server value when I grab it from DB - because the issue I'm running across is that - even though these two values are the same - because they are both compared as Strings - it thinks that there not the same values.
I'm foreseeing another issue when the value might look like this...94,259.40 I think what might work is limiting the numbers to 2 after the period. So as long as I select the value from Server with this format 94,259.40 - I thin I should be okay.
EDIT:
For Column = 1 To 34
Select Case Column
Case 1 'Field 1
If Not ([String].IsNullOrEmpty(CStr(excel.Cells(Row, Column).Value)) Or CStr(excel.Cells(Row, Column).Value) = "") Then
strField1 = CStr(excel.Cells(Row, Column).Value)
End If
Case 2 'Field 2
' and so on
I go through each field and store the value as a string. Then I compare it against the DB and see if there is a record that has the same values. The only field in my way is the Money field.
You can use the Format() to compare strings, or even Float For example:
Declare @YourTable table (value money)
Insert Into @YourTable values
(94259.4000),
(94259.4500),
(94259.0000)
Select Original = value
,AsFloat = cast(value as float)
,Formatted = format(value,'0.####')
From @YourTable
Returns
Original AsFloat Formatted
94259.40 94259.4 94259.4
94259.45 94259.45 94259.45
94259.00 94259 94259
I should note that Format() has some great functionality, but it is NOT known for its performance