Doesn't matter if it's varchar or not... your method still works...
declare @i decimal(10,2)
Set @i = 1078.734
PRINT REPLACE(@i,'.','')
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code: ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.