Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Oracle : Finding Non-numeric column record in a table

Find ALL rows where you have non-numeric characters only:

select ROW_SEQ#, STRING#
from TMP_DATA
WHERE length(STRING#)
- Length( TRANSLATE(STRING#, CHR(1)||TRANSLATE(String#,
CHR(1)||'1234567890', CHR(1) ), CHR(1) ) ) > 0
;

Find ALL rows where you have numeric characters only:

Find ALL rows where you have numeric characters only:

select ROW_SEQ#, STRING#
from TMP_DATA
WHERE length(STRING#)
- Length( TRANSLATE(STRING#, CHR(1)||TRANSLATE(String#,
CHR(1)||'1234567890', CHR(1) ), CHR(1) ) ) = 0
;