Re: query



On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 09:44:03 -0400, Michael Abair wrote:

the isnumeric function is probably the most efficient way of accomplishing
this task

Hi Michael,

Except that isnumeric returns 1 if the value passed to it can be
converted to at least one numeric datatype - not necessary int.

Try
SELECT ISNUMERIC('$'), ISNUMERIC('1E3'), ISNUMERIC('1.d2')

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