I know it's not pretty but it is simple. Try this:
declare @AlpaNumber nvarchar(50) = 'ABC'
declare @MyNumber int = 0
begin Try
select @MyNumber = case when ISNUMERIC(@AlpaNumber) = 1 then cast(@AlpaNumber as int) else 0 end
End Try
Begin Catch
-- Do nothing
End Catch
if exists(select * from mytable where mynumber = @MyNumber)
Begin
print 'Found'
End
Else
Begin
print 'Not Found'
End
As has been mentioned, you may run into several issues if you use ISNUMERIC:
-- Incorrectly gives 0:
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC('-') = 1 THEN CAST('-' AS INT) END
-- Error (conversion failure):
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC('$') = 1 THEN CAST('$' AS INT) END
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC('4.4') = 1 THEN CAST('4.4' AS INT) END
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC('1,300') = 1 THEN CAST('1,300' AS INT) END
-- Error (overflow):
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC('9999999999') = 1 THEN CAST('9999999999' AS INT) END
If you want a reliable conversion, you'll need to code one yourself.
Update: My new recommendation would be to use an intermediary test conversion to FLOAT to validate the number. This approach is based on adrianm's comment. The logic can be defined as an inline table-valued function:
CREATE FUNCTION TryConvertInt (@text NVARCHAR(MAX))
RETURNS TABLE
AS
RETURN
(
SELECT
CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(@text + '.e0') = 1 THEN
CASE WHEN CONVERT(FLOAT, @text) BETWEEN -2147483648 AND 2147483647
THEN CONVERT(INT, @text)
END
END AS [Result]
)
Some tests:
SELECT [Conversion].[Result]
FROM ( VALUES
( '1234' ) -- 1234
, ( '1,234' ) -- NULL
, ( '1234.0' ) -- NULL
, ( '-1234' ) -- -1234
, ( '$1234' ) -- NULL
, ( '1234e10' ) -- NULL
, ( '1234 5678' ) -- NULL
, ( '123-456' ) -- NULL
, ( '1234.5' ) -- NULL
, ( '123456789000000' ) -- NULL
, ( 'N/A' ) -- NULL
, ( '-' ) -- NULL
, ( '$' ) -- NULL
, ( '4.4' ) -- NULL
, ( '1,300' ) -- NULL
, ( '9999999999' ) -- NULL
, ( '00000000000000001234' ) -- 1234
, ( '212110090000000235698741' ) -- NULL
) AS [Source] ([Text])
OUTER APPLY TryConvertInt ([Source].[Text]) AS [Conversion]
Results are similar to Joseph Sturtevant's answer, with the following main differences:
. or , in order to mimic the behaviour of native INT conversions. '1,234' and '1234.0' return NULL.'00000000000000001234' evaluates to 12. Increasing the parameter length would result in errors on numbers that overflow BIGINT, such as BBANs (basic bank account numbers) like '212110090000000235698741'.Withdrawn: The approach below is no longer recommended, as is left just for reference.
The snippet below works on non-negative integers. It checks that your string does not contain any non-digit characters, is not empty, and does not overflow (by exceeding the maximum value for the int type). However, it also gives NULL for valid integers whose length exceeds 10 characters due to leading zeros.
SELECT
CASE WHEN @text NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%' THEN
CASE WHEN LEN(@text) BETWEEN 1 AND 9
OR LEN(@text) = 10 AND @text <= '2147483647'
THEN CAST (@text AS INT)
END
END
If you want to support any number of leading zeros, use the below. The nested CASE statements, albeit unwieldy, are required to promote short-circuit evaluation and reduce the likelihood of errors (arising, for example, from passing a negative length to LEFT).
SELECT
CASE WHEN @text NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%' THEN
CASE WHEN LEN(@text) BETWEEN 1 AND 9 THEN CAST (@text AS INT)
WHEN LEN(@text) >= 10 THEN
CASE WHEN LEFT(@text, LEN(@text) - 10) NOT LIKE '%[^0]%'
AND RIGHT(@text, 10) <= '2147483647'
THEN CAST (@text AS INT)
END
END
END
If you want to support positive and negative integers with any number of leading zeros:
SELECT
-- Positive integers (or 0):
CASE WHEN @text NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%' THEN
CASE WHEN LEN(@text) BETWEEN 1 AND 9 THEN CAST (@text AS INT)
WHEN LEN(@text) >= 10 THEN
CASE WHEN LEFT(@text, LEN(@text) - 10) NOT LIKE '%[^0]%'
AND RIGHT(@text, 10) <= '2147483647'
THEN CAST (@text AS INT)
END
END
-- Negative integers:
WHEN LEFT(@text, 1) = '-' THEN
CASE WHEN RIGHT(@text, LEN(@text) - 1) NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%' THEN
CASE WHEN LEN(@text) BETWEEN 2 AND 10 THEN CAST (@text AS INT)
WHEN LEN(@text) >= 11 THEN
CASE WHEN SUBSTRING(@text, 2, LEN(@text) - 11) NOT LIKE '%[^0]%'
AND RIGHT(@text, 10) <= '2147483648'
THEN CAST (@text AS INT)
END
END
END
END
Yes :). Try this:
DECLARE @text AS NVARCHAR(10)
SET @text = '100'
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(@text) = 1 THEN CAST(@text AS INT) ELSE NULL END
-- returns 100
SET @text = 'XXX'
SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(@text) = 1 THEN CAST(@text AS INT) ELSE NULL END
-- returns NULL
ISNUMERIC() has a few issues pointed by Fedor Hajdu.
It returns true for strings like $ (is currency), , or . (both are separators), + and -.
Joseph's answer pointed out ISNUMERIC also handles scientific notation like '1.3e+3' but his answer doesn't handle this format of number.
Casting to a money or float first handles both the currency and scientific issues:
IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[TryConvertInt]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT'))
DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[TryConvertInt]
GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.TryConvertInt(@Value varchar(18))
RETURNS bigint
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @IntValue bigint;
IF (ISNUMERIC(@Value) = 1)
IF (@Value like '%e%')
SET @IntValue = CAST(Cast(@Value as float) as bigint);
ELSE
SET @IntValue = CAST(CAST(@Value as money) as bigint);
ELSE
SET @IntValue = NULL;
RETURN @IntValue;
END
The function will fail if the number is bigger than a bigint.
If you want to return a different default value, leave this function so it is generic and replace the null afterwards:
SELECT IsNull(dbo.TryConvertInt('nan') , 1000);
Regards.
I wrote a useful scalar function to simulate the TRY_CAST function of SQL SERVER 2012 in SQL Server 2008.
You can see it in the next link below and we help each other to improve it. TRY_CAST Function for SQL Server 2008 https://gist.github.com/jotapardo/800881eba8c5072eb8d99ce6eb74c8bb
The two main differences are that you must pass 3 parameters and you must additionally perform an explicit CONVERT or CAST to the field. However, it is still very useful because it allows you to return a default value if CAST is not performed correctly.
dbo.TRY_CAST(Expression, Data_Type, ReturnValueIfErrorCast)
Example:
SELECT CASE WHEN dbo.TRY_CAST('6666666166666212', 'INT', DEFAULT) IS NULL
THEN 'Cast failed'
ELSE 'Cast succeeded'
END AS Result;
For now only supports the data types INT, DATE, NUMERIC, BIT and FLOAT
I hope you find it useful.
CODE:
DECLARE @strSQL NVARCHAR(1000)
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM dbo.sysobjects WHERE id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[TRY_CAST]'))
BEGIN
SET @strSQL = 'CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[TRY_CAST] () RETURNS INT AS BEGIN RETURN 0 END'
EXEC sys.sp_executesql @strSQL
END
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
/*
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Description:
Syntax
---------------
dbo.TRY_CAST(Expression, Data_Type, ReturnValueIfErrorCast)
+---------------------------+-----------------------+
| Expression | VARCHAR(8000) |
+---------------------------+-----------------------+
| Data_Type | VARCHAR(8000) |
+---------------------------+-----------------------+
| ReturnValueIfErrorCast | SQL_VARIANT = NULL |
+---------------------------+-----------------------+
Arguments
---------------
expression
The value to be cast. Any valid expression.
Data_Type
The data type into which to cast expression.
ReturnValueIfErrorCast
Value returned if cast fails or is not supported. Required. Set the DEFAULT value by default.
Return Type
----------------
Returns value cast to SQL_VARIANT type if the cast succeeds; otherwise, returns null if the parameter @pReturnValueIfErrorCast is set to DEFAULT,
or that the user indicates.
Remarks
----------------
dbo.TRY_CAST function simulates the TRY_CAST function reserved of SQL SERVER 2012 for using in SQL SERVER 2008.
dbo.TRY_CAST function takes the value passed to it and tries to convert it to the specified Data_Type.
If the cast succeeds, dbo.TRY_CAST returns the value as SQL_VARIANT type; if the cast doesn´t succees, null is returned if the parameter @pReturnValueIfErrorCast is set to DEFAULT.
If the Data_Type is unsupported will return @pReturnValueIfErrorCast.
dbo.TRY_CAST function requires user make an explicit CAST or CONVERT in ANY statements.
This version of dbo.TRY_CAST only supports CAST for INT, DATE, NUMERIC and BIT types.
Examples
====================================================================================================
--A. Test TRY_CAST function returns null
SELECT
CASE WHEN dbo.TRY_CAST('6666666166666212', 'INT', DEFAULT) IS NULL
THEN 'Cast failed'
ELSE 'Cast succeeded'
END AS Result;
GO
--B. Error Cast With User Value
SELECT
dbo.TRY_CAST('2147483648', 'INT', DEFAULT) AS [Error Cast With DEFAULT],
dbo.TRY_CAST('2147483648', 'INT', -1) AS [Error Cast With User Value],
dbo.TRY_CAST('2147483648', 'INT', NULL) AS [Error Cast With User NULL Value];
GO
--C. Additional CAST or CONVERT required in any assignment statement
DECLARE @IntegerVariable AS INT
SET @IntegerVariable = CAST(dbo.TRY_CAST(123, 'INT', DEFAULT) AS INT)
SELECT @IntegerVariable
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#temp') IS NOT NULL
DROP TABLE #temp
CREATE TABLE #temp (
Id INT IDENTITY
, FieldNumeric NUMERIC(3, 1)
)
INSERT INTO dbo.#temp (FieldNumeric)
SELECT CAST(dbo.TRY_CAST(12.3, 'NUMERIC(3,1)', 0) AS NUMERIC(3, 1));--Need explicit CAST on INSERT statements
SELECT *
FROM #temp
DROP TABLE #temp
GO
--D. Supports CAST for INT, DATE, NUMERIC and BIT types.
SELECT dbo.TRY_CAST(2147483648, 'INT', 0) AS [Cast failed]
, dbo.TRY_CAST(2147483647, 'INT', 0) AS [Cast succeeded]
, SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(dbo.TRY_CAST(212, 'INT', 0), 'BaseType') AS [BaseType];
SELECT dbo.TRY_CAST('AAAA0101', 'DATE', DEFAULT) AS [Cast failed]
, dbo.TRY_CAST('20160101', 'DATE', DEFAULT) AS [Cast succeeded]
, SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(dbo.TRY_CAST('2016-01-01', 'DATE', DEFAULT), 'BaseType') AS [BaseType];
SELECT dbo.TRY_CAST(1.23, 'NUMERIC(3,1)', DEFAULT) AS [Cast failed]
, dbo.TRY_CAST(12.3, 'NUMERIC(3,1)', DEFAULT) AS [Cast succeeded]
, SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(dbo.TRY_CAST(12.3, 'NUMERIC(3,1)', DEFAULT), 'BaseType') AS [BaseType];
SELECT dbo.TRY_CAST('A', 'BIT', DEFAULT) AS [Cast failed]
, dbo.TRY_CAST(1, 'BIT', DEFAULT) AS [Cast succeeded]
, SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(dbo.TRY_CAST('123', 'BIT', DEFAULT), 'BaseType') AS [BaseType];
GO
--E. B. TRY_CAST return NULL on unsupported data_types
SELECT dbo.TRY_CAST(4, 'xml', DEFAULT) AS [unsupported];
GO
====================================================================================================
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Responsible: Javier Pardo
Date: diciembre 29/2016
WB tests: Javier Pardo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Update by: Javier Eduardo Pardo Moreno
Date: febrero 16/2017
Id update: JEPM20170216
Description: Fix ISNUMERIC function makes it unreliable. SELECT dbo.TRY_CAST('+', 'INT', 0) will yield Msg 8114,
Level 16, State 5, Line 16 Error converting data type varchar to float.
ISNUMERIC() function treats few more characters as numeric, like: – (minus), + (plus), $ (dollar), \ (back slash), (.)dot and (,)comma
Collaborator aperiooculus (http://stackoverflow.com/users/3083382/aperiooculus )
Fix dbo.TRY_CAST('2013/09/20', 'datetime', DEFAULT) for supporting DATETIME format
WB tests: Javier Pardo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*/
ALTER FUNCTION dbo.TRY_CAST
(
@pExpression AS VARCHAR(8000),
@pData_Type AS VARCHAR(8000),
@pReturnValueIfErrorCast AS SQL_VARIANT = NULL
)
RETURNS SQL_VARIANT
AS
BEGIN
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- INT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF @pData_Type = 'INT'
BEGIN
IF ISNUMERIC(@pExpression) = 1 AND @pExpression NOT IN ('-','+','$','.',',','\') --JEPM20170216
BEGIN
DECLARE @pExpressionINT AS FLOAT = CAST(@pExpression AS FLOAT)
IF @pExpressionINT BETWEEN - 2147483648.0 AND 2147483647.0
BEGIN
RETURN CAST(@pExpressionINT as INT)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END --FIN IF @pExpressionINT BETWEEN - 2147483648.0 AND 2147483647.0
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END -- FIN IF ISNUMERIC(@pExpression) = 1
END -- FIN IF @pData_Type = 'INT'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- DATE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF @pData_Type IN ('DATE','DATETIME')
BEGIN
IF ISDATE(@pExpression) = 1
BEGIN
DECLARE @pExpressionDATE AS DATETIME = cast(@pExpression AS DATETIME)
IF @pData_Type = 'DATE'
BEGIN
RETURN cast(@pExpressionDATE as DATE)
END
IF @pData_Type = 'DATETIME'
BEGIN
RETURN cast(@pExpressionDATE as DATETIME)
END
END
ELSE
BEGIN
DECLARE @pExpressionDATEReplaced AS VARCHAR(50) = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@pExpression,'\',''),'/',''),'-','')
IF ISDATE(@pExpressionDATEReplaced) = 1
BEGIN
IF @pData_Type = 'DATE'
BEGIN
RETURN cast(@pExpressionDATEReplaced as DATE)
END
IF @pData_Type = 'DATETIME'
BEGIN
RETURN cast(@pExpressionDATEReplaced as DATETIME)
END
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END
END --FIN IF ISDATE(@pExpression) = 1
END --FIN IF @pData_Type = 'DATE'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- NUMERIC
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF @pData_Type LIKE 'NUMERIC%'
BEGIN
IF ISNUMERIC(@pExpression) = 1
BEGIN
DECLARE @TotalDigitsOfType AS INT = SUBSTRING(@pData_Type,CHARINDEX('(',@pData_Type)+1, CHARINDEX(',',@pData_Type) - CHARINDEX('(',@pData_Type) - 1)
, @TotalDecimalsOfType AS INT = SUBSTRING(@pData_Type,CHARINDEX(',',@pData_Type)+1, CHARINDEX(')',@pData_Type) - CHARINDEX(',',@pData_Type) - 1)
, @TotalDigitsOfValue AS INT
, @TotalDecimalsOfValue AS INT
, @TotalWholeDigitsOfType AS INT
, @TotalWholeDigitsOfValue AS INT
SET @pExpression = REPLACE(@pExpression, ',','.')
SET @TotalDigitsOfValue = LEN(REPLACE(@pExpression, '.',''))
SET @TotalDecimalsOfValue = CASE Charindex('.', @pExpression)
WHEN 0
THEN 0
ELSE Len(Cast(Cast(Reverse(CONVERT(VARCHAR(50), @pExpression, 128)) AS FLOAT) AS BIGINT))
END
SET @TotalWholeDigitsOfType = @TotalDigitsOfType - @TotalDecimalsOfType
SET @TotalWholeDigitsOfValue = @TotalDigitsOfValue - @TotalDecimalsOfValue
-- The total digits can not be greater than the p part of NUMERIC (p, s)
-- The total of decimals can not be greater than the part s of NUMERIC (p, s)
-- The total digits of the whole part can not be greater than the subtraction between p and s
IF (@TotalDigitsOfValue <= @TotalDigitsOfType) AND (@TotalDecimalsOfValue <= @TotalDecimalsOfType) AND (@TotalWholeDigitsOfValue <= @TotalWholeDigitsOfType)
BEGIN
DECLARE @pExpressionNUMERIC AS FLOAT
SET @pExpressionNUMERIC = CAST (ROUND(@pExpression, @TotalDecimalsOfValue) AS FLOAT)
RETURN @pExpressionNUMERIC --Returns type FLOAT
END
else
BEGIN
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END-- FIN IF (@TotalDigitisOfValue <= @TotalDigits) AND (@TotalDecimalsOfValue <= @TotalDecimals)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END --FIN IF ISNUMERIC(@pExpression) = 1
END --IF @pData_Type LIKE 'NUMERIC%'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- BIT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF @pData_Type LIKE 'BIT'
BEGIN
IF ISNUMERIC(@pExpression) = 1
BEGIN
RETURN CAST(@pExpression AS BIT)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END --FIN IF ISNUMERIC(@pExpression) = 1
END --IF @pData_Type LIKE 'BIT'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- FLOAT
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
IF @pData_Type LIKE 'FLOAT'
BEGIN
IF ISNUMERIC(REPLACE(REPLACE(@pExpression, CHAR(13), ''), CHAR(10), '')) = 1
BEGIN
RETURN CAST(@pExpression AS FLOAT)
END
ELSE
BEGIN
IF REPLACE(@pExpression, CHAR(13), '') = '' --Only white spaces are replaced, not new lines
BEGIN
RETURN 0
END
ELSE
BEGIN
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END --IF REPLACE(@pExpression, CHAR(13), '') = ''
END --FIN IF ISNUMERIC(@pExpression) = 1
END --IF @pData_Type LIKE 'FLOAT'
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Any other unsupported data type will return NULL or the value assigned by the user to @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
RETURN @pReturnValueIfErrorCast
END
My solution to this issue was to create the function shown below. My requirements included that the number had to be a standard integer, not a BIGINT, and I needed to allow negative numbers and positive numbers. I have not found a circumstance where this fails.
CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[udfIsInteger]
(
-- Add the parameters for the function here
@Value nvarchar(max)
)
RETURNS int
AS
BEGIN
-- Declare the return variable here
DECLARE @Result int = 0
-- Add the T-SQL statements to compute the return value here
DECLARE @MinValue nvarchar(11) = '-2147483648'
DECLARE @MaxValue nvarchar(10) = '2147483647'
SET @Value = ISNULL(@Value,'')
IF LEN(@Value)=0 OR
ISNUMERIC(@Value)<>1 OR
(LEFT(@Value,1)='-' AND LEN(@Value)>11) OR
(LEFT(@Value,1)='-' AND LEN(@Value)=11 AND @Value>@MinValue) OR
(LEFT(@Value,1)<>'-' AND LEN(@Value)>10) OR
(LEFT(@Value,1)<>'-' AND LEN(@Value)=10 AND @Value>@MaxValue)
GOTO FINISHED
DECLARE @cnt int = 0
WHILE @cnt<LEN(@Value)
BEGIN
SET @cnt=@cnt+1
IF SUBSTRING(@Value,@cnt,1) NOT IN ('-','0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9') GOTO FINISHED
END
SET @Result=1
FINISHED:
-- Return the result of the function
RETURN @Result
END
I would rather create a function like TryParse or use T-SQL TRY-CATCH block to get what you wanted.
ISNUMERIC doesn't always work as intended. The code given before will fail if you do:
SET @text = '$'
$ sign can be converted to money datatype, so ISNUMERIC() returns true in that case. It will do the same for '-' (minus), ',' (comma) and '.' characters.
Source: Stackoverflow.com