How Can I Convert Text With A Localized Number Format Into A Number In Ms Sql Server?

Let's say I have a number in the german number format '1,00' which is equal to 1.0 in the en-US locale. Is there a built-in way to convert this text in T-SQL to the corresponding n

Solution 1:

If you want to do this inside SQL Server, then you will have to create a CLR stored procedure/user-defined function which will take the string as a parameter and return the numeric type that you desire. You might also want to take a parameter that indicates what region names (en-US for example) you might want to use to indicate the culture to use for determining the parsing pattern.

Then, in the code, you would call the TryParse method on Double/Decimal/Int32 and use the appropriate CultureInfo to indicate the parse pattern. You can cycle through a bunch of them, or use some other information to determine the right pattern.

Solution 2:

I would recommend you do it at the application level, as the application is aware of the locale. What language/framework are you using?