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Can this be done, via an sql call?


I have a field, it's 20 char long, left justified..

It has things like:
Accounting
Education
110
1101
220
2234


The problems is sorting... Because it's not a numeric field, and there are
are no '0's infront of the number to make them the same length or right
justified, their not sorted correctly...

Is there a way in a sql statement, to check the field to test if it's
numeric, and if its, a valid number, (cast) it as an integer, and sort it
that way?

Just looking for an idea...

thanks



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