title: Database Connectivity using Linked Server. (Numeric Values)
body: <p>So I established a connection from my SQL Server 2008 Express Edition to our Oracle Database.
  When I query varchar based values, it is fine, but for any numeric value, it throws me an error like this one.</p>
  
  <pre><code>Msg 9803, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
  Invalid data for type "numeric".
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I get around this?</p>