Convert Character Data to Numeric

By mikedouglas, 2013/06/20

This is a simple stored procedure, for inclusion in your script writing efforts, that strips non-numeric data from a given varchar. This is most usefull in scripts used to clean-up data such as account numbers that may include spaces, dashes and the like.

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