>>Yet another question on setting up values to parameters to be passed to a sql server stored procedure.
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>>Here is an example.
>>One of the parameters of the stored procedure is of type number:
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>>@nTest numeric(10,2) OUTPUT
>>--- set value
>>set @nTest = 3333.33
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>>
>>Then in the C# code when creating the parameter I do the following
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>>param.DbType = System.Data.DbType.Decimal;
>>param.Value = 0;
>>param.Direction.InputOutput;
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>>But after I call the oCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() I get error
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>>Error converting data type numeric to numeric
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>>
>>What am I missing?
>>
>>TIA.
>>
>>UPDATE: The title of the thread is wrong. It should have said, Using Decimal type parameter.
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>Shouldn't be SqlDbType.Decimal?
You are probably right. But when I changed (in my C# code) the type to System.Data.SqlDbType.Decimal I get compiler error "An explicit conversion exist (are you missing a cast)." I don't understand what it mean though.
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