Posted by Chris on 01/22/07 23:34

I am trying to create a view that creates a mailing list from two
different tables. The t-sql code executes successfully but when I try
to open the view I get this error message [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server
Driver][SQL Server]Error converting data type vchar to float.

Here is the t-sql code I used to create the view:

CREATE VIEW [vwAllSnailMail]
AS
SELECT [dbo].[_tblLeads].[FirstName] + ' ' +
[dbo].[_tblLeads].[LastName] as Fullname, [dbo].[_tblLeads].[Address 1]
as Address1, [dbo].[_tblLeads].[Address 2] as Address2,
[dbo].[_tblLeads].[City] as City, [dbo].[_tblLeads].[State] as ST,
[dbo].[_tblLeads].[Zip] as Zip
FROM [dbo].[_tblLeads]
WHERE [dbo].[_tblLeads].[Address 1] IS NOT NULL AND
[dbo].[_tblLeads].[City] IS NOT NULL AND [dbo].[_tblLeads].[State] IS
NOT NULL AND [dbo].[_tblLeads].[Zip] IS NOT NULL
UNION
SELECT [dbo].[tblClients].[FName] + ' ' + [dbo].[tblClients].[LName] as
Fullname, [dbo].[tblClients].[Street1] as Address1,
[dbo].[tblClients].[Street2] as Address2, [dbo].[tblClients].[City] as
City, [dbo].[tblClients].[State_cd] as ST, [dbo].[tblClients].[Zip] as
Zip
FROM [dbo].[tblClients]
WHERE [dbo].[tblClients].[Street1]<>'' AND [dbo].[tblClients].[City]
<>'' AND [dbo].[tblClients].[State_cd] <>'0' AND
[dbo].[tblClients].[Zip] <>''

Note - When I separate the select statements and create two separate
views, both execute correctly AND I can view the results for each
individual view. I just can't get the above to work. What am I
missing?

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