[Chicago-talk] detecting whether a scalar is number or a string.

[Andy Lester]

On Jul 6, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Richard Reina wrote:

> Thanks so much for the response.  It's just a one time use, throw  
> away script to validate data before it gets entered into a table.  I  
> will try your "low tech" way and if it works for me I am going to  
> run with it.


Doesn't the database have validation on it, then?  Why not let the DB  
do that part of the job?

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