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Munish Singla

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 1:41 am
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I have an address column in a table which is of varchar() type so that it can contain alphanumeric data.

I need to fetch a row which contains only numeric data.
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Craq Giegerich

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:14 am
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Munish Singla wrote:
Hi All,

I need a urgent help.

I have a address column in a table which is of varchar() type so that it can contain alphanumeric data.

I need to fetch a row which contains only numeric data.

Could you please help me out?


What format is the numeric data in, packed, binary, or character?
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Munish Singla

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:45 am
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It is a number like 123456.......
it resides in a column which is varchar() type.
Now number can start with any digit.

Also i have to fetch the row that contains only number no character or specail character.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:43 am
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Hello,

Sounds like this is not really an address. If it is not, it should not be stored in an "address" column, but rather in some other properly defined column(s).

What should happen if the data is "12 34 56"? Is there a maximum or minimum "valid" length? Does the query need to traverse the entire table or is there some additonal selection criteria?
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