Convert strings with expression to decimal

Question

I have a table that has a "Faktor" column (varchar (50)) that contains expressions like:

1/3
2*9/5
0.567
0.23

No, I'm looking for a way to make a choice, for example

select Faktor from Artikel

which should return a decimal column with values

0.333333
3.6
0.567
0.23

Answer 1

I would go with the CLR, something like this (this has the advantage of working in SET-based operations, while dynamic SQL alternatives (i.e. the Abduls answer) will not):

EDIT: The source code for the CLR DLL (Visual Studio 2008) is available here: http://www.heavencore.co.uk/filehub/uploaded/EvalFunction.zip p>

, :

Imports System
Imports System.Data
Imports System.Data.SqlClient
Imports System.Data.SqlTypes
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Server
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices    

Partial Public Class UserDefinedFunctions
    <Microsoft.SqlServer.Server.SqlFunction()> _
    Public Shared Function EVAL(ByVal InputExpression As SqlString) As SqlDecimal
        Return Evaluate(InputExpression)
    End Function

    Private Shared Function Evaluate(ByVal expression As SqlString) As SqlDecimal
        Dim expressionStr As String = expression.ToString()
        Dim loDataTable = New DataTable()
        Dim loDataColumn = New DataColumn("Eval", GetType(Double), expressionStr)
        loDataTable.Columns.Add(loDataColumn)
        loDataTable.Rows.Add(0)
        Return ParseDecimal(loDataTable.Rows(0)("Eval").ToString(), 0)
    End Function

    Public Shared Function ParseDecimal(ByVal InputStr As String, Optional ByVal ReturnIfFail As Decimal = 0) As Decimal
        Dim ParseOutput As Decimal = 0
        If Decimal.TryParse(InputStr, ParseOutput) = False Then
            Return ReturnIfFail
        Else
            Return ParseOutput
        End If
    End Function
End Class

:

SELECT Faktor, dbo.Eval(Faktor) as Result FROM Artikel

: , , .., :

-- Enable the CLR to run user-defined functions
EXEC sp_configure 
    'clr enabled' ,
    '1'
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

-- Set the appropriate database security permission
ALTER DATABASE [TargetDatabase] SET TRUSTWORTHY ON
GO

-- Import the assembly
CREATE ASSEMBLY EvalFunction
FROM 'C:\bin\EvalFunction.dll'  
WITH PERMISSION_SET = EXTERNAL_ACCESS;
GO

-- Create the Eval function for easy use
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.Eval
    (
      @Expression NVARCHAR(255)
    )
RETURNS DECIMAL(18, 2)
AS EXTERNAL NAME 
    EvalFunction.[EvalFunction.UserDefinedFunctions].EVAL 
GO

Answer 2

. int datatype. , decimal.

, , -

declare @expr nvarchar(10)
set @expr='2*9/5'
declare @query varchar(800)

BEGIN TRY
    SELECT CAST(@expr as decimal(5,2))
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
    SET @query='SELECT CAST('+@expr+'.0 as decimal(5,2))'
    EXECUTE(@query)
END CATCH

Answer 3

execute .