T-sql - determine if value is integer

Question

I want to determine if a value is integer (like TryParse in .NET). Unfortunatelly ISNUMERIC does not fit me because I want to parse only integers a

Answer 1

Here's a blog post describing the creation of an IsInteger UDF.

Basically, it recommends adding '.e0' to the value and using IsNumeric. In this way, anything that already had a decimal point now has two decimal points, causing IsNumeric to be false, and anything already expressed in scientific notation is invalidated by the e0.