I have a StreetNumber column that is CHAR(8). It needs to be character, because you can have alpha in a street number, ie: 102A First St. The problem is that I need to provide the capability to search on a range of street numbers.

Simply using

WHERE StreetNumber >= '300' and StreetNumber < '500'

won't work, because of the fact that it returns numbers like 35, 42, etc.

But, because of the possibility of alpha characters, I cannot use CAST or CONVERT to compare numerically. I thought the answer would be to pad with leading zeros and continue to do a string comparison ... but how does one do that with T-SQL? There is no PADL statement.

Any ideas? Or do I just need to have a cuppa coffee before I start doing too much thinking first thing in the morning? <g>

TIA,
~~Bonnie