The text, ntext, and image data > types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE > operator
email belongs to table booking and its defined as type "Text" in our Microsoft sql server
SELECT email,
COUNT(email) AS NumOccurrences
FROM Booking
GROUP BY email
HAVING ( COUNT(email) > 1 )
after running the above query(trying to find duplicates emails in the booking) I got the error message like this:
The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.
I am using Microsoft Sql
since you are using SQL Server
, why not change the data type to VARCHAR(100)
?
To work around this error without changing the datatype, the TEXT or NTEXT
column needs to be converted to VARCHAR or NVARCHAR
when used in either the ORDER BY
clause or the GROUP BY
clause of a SELECT
statement. eg, which is alittle bit messy
SELECT CAST(email AS NVARCHAR(100)) email,
COUNT(CAST(email AS NVARCHAR(100))) AS NumOccurrences
FROM Booking
GROUP BY CAST(email AS NVARCHAR(100))
HAVING COUNT(CAST(email AS NVARCHAR(100))) > 1
- SQL Server Error Messages - Msg 306