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Nick Crews
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Generalized the MSSQL :func:`_sql.try_cast` function into the
``sqlalchemy.`` import namespace so that it may be implemented by third
party dialects as well. Within SQLAlchemy, the :func:`_sql.try_cast`
function remains a SQL Server-only construct that will raise
:class:`.CompileError` if used with backends that don't support it.
:func:`_sql.try_cast` implements a CAST where un-castable conversions are
returned as NULL, instead of raising an error. Theoretically, the construct
could be implemented by third party dialects for Google BigQuery, DuckDB,
and Snowflake, and possibly others.
Pull request courtesy Nick Crews.
Fixes: #9752
Closes: #9753
Pull-request: https://github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy/pull/9753
Pull-request-sha: 2e81b8d2c9
Change-Id: Ib57999b5947a2e34d5d305e294ff99dc08b01111