Today I needed to convert an integer into a uniqueidentifier column. At first, I thought that SQL Server would just allow me to do it intrinsically (because I can go the reverse way). However, surprisingly this was not the case. I got the following error message:
Msg 529, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Explicit conversion from data type int to uniqueidentifier is not allowed.
So, I hit up my trusty Google and found that you actually need to do the following:
And then you are done.
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