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How to fix cast as numeric gives error converting data type varchar to numeric.

 While writing SQL queries, we may get Errors while doing cast(value as data_type) like below: "converting data type varchar to numeric."  Sometimes the value will be valid and still you see the error while casting. To fix this error, we can use TRY_CAST instead of CAST function. Since when the  cast fails, the  TRY_CAST()  function returns NULL while the   cast()  function gives an error. Syntax :  TRY_CAST(value  AS data_type)