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

I think that there is something wrong with your database design. I think it is a really bad idea to mix varchar and numbers in one column? What is the reason for that?

Of course you can check if there are any chars other than [0-9], but imagine you have a 1m rows in table and your are checking every row. I think it won't work well.

Anyway if you really want to do it I suggest doing it on the client side.