>I have 8,000 records in a table. I would like to remove any characters such as(,),- that are currently there separating the area code from the number, being left with just the numbers.
>Example:
>Current: (800)555-5555
>I would like to see: 8885555555
>Then I can set the format and input mask properties for future entries.
>
>Thanks

The following code will remove all non-digit characters from the phone filed.

SELECT mytable
REPLACE ALL PhoneNum WITH CHRTRAN(PhoneNum, CHRTRAN(PhoneNum , "01234567890", ""), "")