Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '<b>' to data type float

Question

Here, What I am trying to do is to display the data in

BOLD

and did for

name

column at

backend

and there isn't any issue but when applying same to the

salary

it's raising an error even using

conversion functions

. So, I am looking for your suggestions OR solutions :

The case is same but data and query is different and I must go through the dynamic query as below because it's huge with various conditions.

CREATE TABLE #test(name VARCHAR(50), salary FLOAT)

INSERT INTO #test VALUES

('a', 1000),

('b', 5000)



DECLARE @sql VARCHAR(8000)



SET @sql = 'SELECT 

        ''<b>'' + name + ''</b>'',

        ''<b>'' + salary + ''</b>''

    FROM #test'



EXEC(@sql)

Thank You.

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Answer 1

CREATE TABLE #test(name VARCHAR(50), salary INT)
INSERT INTO #test VALUES
('a', 1000),
('b', 5000)

DECLARE @sql VARCHAR(8000)

SET @sql = 'SELECT 
        ''<b>'' + name + ''<b>'',
        ''<b>'' + CAST(salary AS VARCHAR(20)) + ''<b>''
    FROM #test'

EXEC(@sql)

Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '<b>' to data type float

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