Comments on: Softview http://www.virendra.org The world is lemon and I want my money back!! Fri, 27 Aug 2010 06:54:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Cyber Militia http://www.virendra.org/softview/comment-page-1/#comment-406 Cyber Militia Sun, 19 Jul 2009 16:31:33 +0000 http://www.virendra.org/softview/#comment-406 MS SQL Server has <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186272.aspx" rel="nofollow">an inbuilt function to test if a string is a numeric value</a> The same query in T-SQL becomes - <code>SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE ISNUMERIC(column_name) != 1</code> Perhaps the reason <a href="http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/04-jul/o44asktom.html" rel="nofollow">Oracle doesn't have this function</a> is to encourage better DB design ? (using correct datatype for the column) MS SQL Server has an inbuilt function to test if a string is a numeric value

The same query in T-SQL becomes -
SELECT * FROM table_name
WHERE ISNUMERIC(column_name) != 1

Perhaps the reason Oracle doesn’t have this function is to encourage better DB design ? (using correct datatype for the column)

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