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                                    | cipriani1984Constraint Violating Yak Guru
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2009-03-06 : 06:48:59 
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                                            | Hi,If i wanted to return rows where the field in them only has numbers how would I go about doing that? for instance in access:WHERE Field like '#'which is the wildcard, is there equivalent in sql? |  |  
                                    | IforAged Yak Warrior
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2009-03-06 : 07:02:18 
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                                          | [code]WHERE YourColumn NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%'[/code] |  
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                                    | Transact CharlieMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2009-03-06 : 07:03:13 
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                                          | If you want it limit to only NUMBERS ONLY (as in characters 0 to 9 - no decimals - no commas - no spaces then DECLARE @bar TABLE (	[foo] VARCHAR(50)	)INSERT @bar      SELECT '1'UNION SELECT '10.1'UNION SELECT 'foo'UNION SELECT 'foo 1'UNION SELECT '435'SELECT    fooFROM    @barWHERE    foo NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%'There is an ISNUMERIC function but it frequently gets things wrong.If that isn't enough then post some sample data and expected results.Charlie===============================================================Msg 3903, Level 16, State 1, Line 1736The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION |  
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                                    | visakh16Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
 
 
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