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Message Posted: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 @ 21:12:53 GMT

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Hi Forum,

I need to change a VARCHAR(16) field in a table to BIGINT. However it has alpha-numeric characters. Is it possible to change the datatype to BIGINT?

Right now, I am getting 'Bad character in format or data' error.

Thanks

Roopalini

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