Hugo Kornelis (hugo@perFact.REMOVETHIS.info.INVALID) writes:
> Are you sure you need to check only the first character for numeric? All
> my credit cards have only numbers. To test for length 14 and only
> numbers, you can change the above to
>
> WHERE LEN(YourColumn) = 14
> AND YourColumn NOT LIKE '%[^0-9]%'
And my two credit-cards have 16-digit numbers...
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