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 Posted - 2005-10-05 : 07:19:56
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| Patricia writes "I use a server monitoring software which writes values to a sql database, the return for diskspace is written to a column with datatype set to varchar (System set up tables etc) basically I am running reports on the data and want to be able to just extract numeric value and not the char in order to convert it to a real number for graphs. The value is 1024 MB and I want to extract just 1024 to the results set, can this be done ???" |
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madhivanan
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ditch
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Posted - 2005-10-05 : 07:36:07
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Yes - look at the following functions in Books Online:SUBSTRINGCHARINDEXPATINDEXDuane.  |
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Extract just number from value e.g. 1024 MB