mssql query to retrieve numeric and alphanumeric entries

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Hi can anyone help with a quire to retrieve both numeric and alpha numeric entries from a column.

Example: Column is 'ID' and entries could be = abc0000 or could be all 9999999999.

The search is a list of numeric and alphanumeric items.

Example: 8765398 ha34789 ss0487667 7629

I wish the result to show the full line for each alphanumeric and numeric search item.

Posted 18-Feb-15 0:24am

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CHill60 18-Feb-15 6:51am

What have you tried? The column itself is obviously not numeric so just query it - what is the problem??

ZurdoDev 18-Feb-15 8:01am

Where are you stuck?

Just do
SELECT *
FROM table

I don't see where you are stuck.

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John C Rayan · Accepted Answer · 2015-02-18T01:53:00

Solution 1

You can use numeric values as alphanumeric in where clause.

SQL

select *
from table1
where ID IN ('8765398' , 'ha34789' , 'ss0487667','7629')

Posted 18-Feb-15 1:53am

John C Rayan

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Member 11345747 18-Feb-15 8:33am

John C Rayan thank you so much. The IN was the trick that made it work. You live and learn something everyday.

John C Rayan 18-Feb-15 8:51am

I am glad that it helped you.

Member 11345747 18-Feb-15 8:35am

Thank you to all that replied.