>>I thought the following code would work, but it doesn't. Maybe one of you SQL gurus can help. I have a sql table which has a column for badge number (badgeno) it is of type char() 4 characters. I attempted to run a query from vfp like the following:
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>>select * from employees where cast(badgeno as numeric(10))>0
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>>I get an error message - Connectivity error: [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Error converting data type varchar to numeric
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>>Any ideas?
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>Most likely you have none-numeric data. Run following query to find offending record(s)
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>select * from employees where ISNUMERIC((badgeno) = 0
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Yes, it's all non-numeric. I was looking for an isdigit() and it seems you have given it to me!

Thanks once again!