Cast int to varchar

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I have below query and need to cast id to varchar  Schema  create table t9  id int  name varchar  55    insert into t9  id  name values 2   bob      What I tried  select CAST id as VARCHAR 50   as col1 from t9   select CONVERT VARCHAR 50  id  as colI1 from t9    but they don t work  Please suggest

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Yes   SELECT id       FROM some table  or SELECT id  text FROM some table    is postgresql  but mySql doesn t allow that   short cut in mySql   SELECT concat id      FROM some table

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You will need to cast or convert as a CHAR datatype  there is no varchar datatype that you can cast convert data to   select CAST id as CHAR 50   as col1  from t9   select CONVERT id  CHAR 50   as colI1  from t9    See the following SQL     in action     over at SQL Fiddle       Build Schema    create table t9  id INT  name VARCHAR 55    insert into t9  id  name  values  2   bob         SQL Queries    select CAST id as CHAR 50   as col1 from t9  select CONVERT id  CHAR 50   as colI1 from t9      Besides the fact that you were trying to convert to an incorrect datatype  the syntax that you were using for convert was incorrect   The convert function uses the following where expr is your column or value    CONVERT expr type    or    CONVERT expr USING transcoding name    Your original query had the syntax backwards

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You re getting that because VARCHAR is not a valid type to cast into   According to the MySQL docs  http   dev mysql com doc refman 5 5 en cast-functions html function cast  you can only cast to     BINARY  N   CHAR  N   DATE DATETIME DECIMAL  M  D    SIGNED  INTEGER  TIME UNSIGNED  INTEGER    I think your best-bet is to use CHAR

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I solved a problem to comparing a integer Column x a varchar column with    where CAST Column name AS CHAR CHARACTER SET latin1   collate latin1 general ci   varchar column name

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I will be answering this in general terms  and very thankful to the above contributers  I am using MySQL on MySQL Workbench  I had a similar issue trying to concatenate a char and an int together using the GROUP CONCAT method  In summary  what has worked for me is this  let s say your char is  c  and int is  i   so  the query becomes     GROUP CONCAT CONCAT c      CAST i AS CHAR

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use      SELECT cast CHAR 50  id  as colI1 from t9

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Should be able to do something like this also   Select  id   gt  VARCHAR 10   as converted  id int from t9

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I don t have MySQL  but there are RDBMS  Postgres  among others  in which you can use the hack  SELECT id       FROM some table    The concatenate does an implicit conversion

[mysql] Cast int to varchar

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