“Cannot call methods on BIGINT” error

Question

I have a T-SQL query that I've been beating on for a while, it seems simple, but I get an error in the query designer when I try to execute it:

SELECT     Date, CAST(Date AS bigint) AS DateNum, Title, Earnings
FROM         dbo.Analysis_001

Whenever I try to execute/modify this in the designer, I get "Cannot call methods in BIGINT" as a pop-up error. Out of frustration, I tried executing it using "CREATE VIEW" and it worked... Why?

Answer 1

It's a bug:

• either in Management Studio - "Cannot call methods on bigint" error (Wayback Machine link),

• or .Net SqlClient Data Provider - Stupid problem with BigInt converting!!!.

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