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sqlfresher2k7
Aged Yak Warrior

623 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-28 : 15:21:06

I need a query to identify and ignore the below characters value to insert.

Ex: 32.

+40

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-28 : 15:55:43

I don't understand what you want.

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sqlfresher2k7
Aged Yak Warrior

623 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-28 : 16:07:46

I do not want to insert the records which has invalid characters with + and or . (Plus and or .)in a value.

Ex:

col1 varchar (50)

Source table

col1
----
44.
33
22.
10+
.14
+15
1+1
1.5

Expected results:

Destination table

Col1
----
33

Please let me know if i m not clear.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-28 : 16:19:49

You can use ISNUMERIC function for this.

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russell
Pyro-ma-ni-yak

5072 Posts

Posted - 2012-08-29 : 08:46:44

ISNUMERIC won't return expected results. For example 1.5 will be returned.

This should do it: