I have a varchar field that contains the street number (part of a
mailing address). It's a varchar because the field may occasionally
contain non-numeric characters, but normally it doesn't.
Let's call the field "x".
I have a record where x='3411'.
In spite of the fact that x is a varchar, the query
SELECT * WHERE x='3411'
returns no rows, while
SELECT * WHERE x=3411
returns the row containing x=3411.
Why doesn't the string comparison work on the varchar field?
I can't guarantee that there won't ever be non-numeric characters
in that field, or I would have made it an int instead. Help!
Thanks.
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