I have a store procedure which is fetching column details of a table. Say this table name is Invoice table. I have another table, Invoice_Staging table, which has data in varchar format. Now I wish to fetch data from Invoice_staging, cast the values as per data types mentioned in Invoice table and do a bulk insert into Invoice table. Now, by chance, there is a value whose Casting isn't possible, in this case, I don't want my bulk insert to fail. Rather make that particular field NULL and insert it in the Invoice table. I am stuck with fetching the data and casting them as required. Kindly show me a way, which could throw a lime light on my issue. The stored procedure is as follows -
create PROCEDURE usp_stagingToProduction
@staging_tableName varchar(200),
@master_tableName varchar(200)
AS BEGIN SET NOCOUNT ON;
Declare @count int, -- for counting the total number of records in a table
@RowCount int,
@columnName varchar(200),
@columnDataTypeName varchar(200),
@maxLength int,
@precision int,
@scale int,
@isNullable int,
@primaryKey int,
@sql varchar(5000)
Set @sql = ''
create table #MyTemporaryTable
(
ColumnName varchar(500),
DataType varchar(100),
MaxLength int,
[Precision] int,
Scale int,
IsNullable bit,
PrimaryKey bit,
flag bit default 0,
id int identity(1,1)
)
insert into #MyTemporaryTable
SELECT
c.name 'ColumnName',
t.Name 'DataType',
c.max_length 'MaxLength',
c.precision 'Precision',
c.scale 'Scale',
c.is_nullable 'IsNullable',
ISNULL(i.is_primary_key, 0) 'PrimaryKey',
0
FROM
sys.columns c
INNER JOIN
sys.types t ON c.user_type_id = t.user_type_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN
sys.index_columns ic ON ic.object_id = c.object_id AND ic.column_id = c.column_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN
sys.indexes i ON ic.object_id = i.object_id AND ic.index_id = i.index_id
WHERE
c.object_id = OBJECT_ID('Invoice')
-- select * from #MyTemporaryTable -- To display the content of temporary table
declare @column varchar(500)
declare @datatype varchar(500)
declare @id int
Set @sql = @sql + 'Insert Into ' + @master_tableName
Set @sql = @sql + ' Select '
while exists (select Top 1 * from #MyTemporaryTable where flag = 0)
BEGIN
Select @id = id, @datatype = DataType, @column = ColumnName from #MyTemporaryTable Where flag = 0
Set @sql = @sql + ' Cast(' + @column + ' As ' + @datatype + '), ' -- building the cast query
update #MyTemporaryTable
set flag = 1
where id = @id
-- Select @sql -- to see whats happing
END
Select @sql = SubString(@sql, 1, LEN(@sql) - 1)
Set @sql = @sql + ' From' +' ' + @staging_tableName -- #MyTemporaryTable'
Select @sql -- just to display query. nothing to do anything with the logic
-------------------
select @count = count(*) from @staging_tableName -- getting column count from staging table
declare @counter as int
set @counter = 1
if(@count >0)
-- data found in staging table
-- logic here for casting and inserting the data to the table
else
END GO
--usp_usp_stagingToProduction 'Invoice'