How to know if a field is numeric in Linq To SQL

Question

I need to select the rows of a table where a column value is numeric, any Help?

EDIT: I have a varchar column and I need to select the ones that are numbers and the

Answer 1

You will not be able to do this with LINQ2SQL without loading all records on the client.

I can suggest to create view or table-valued function with aditional calculated column and then filter your results with this column. Or execute regular SQL with DataContext.ExecuteQuery.