try SELECT * WHERE x like '3411'.
Steve Sobol wrote:
>
> 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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