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Select only numeric data from a varchar field type

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sinCity99

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Jan 21, 2009
20
US
Hi,

How can I only select numeric data from a varchar field that consists of both numeric and string data?

Example:

Column Name contains the following data:

23546
16565
43546
Jeff
John
Jack

How can I only display the following, is there a function in sql server that does that?
23546
16565
43546
 
Look out though isnumeric will pick out some things that don't look numeric to most people. The best solution is to stop storing things you want to use as numbers in a field designed for string data. If some of the stuff is genuinely a number and some isn't it is likely they are things that should be stored in two fields.

"NOTHING is more important in a database than integrity." ESquared
 
Thanks for the link, i'll try that. I did think about isnumeric() but wasn't sure if that was what i needed..unfortunately i can't change the database architecture :(
 
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