Question

I have a table Questions with a column Description. Its column values are like this:

This is First Heading, 
1 This is Subheading one, 
1.2 This is subheading Question
This is Second heading
2 This is subheading Two.
2.1 This is Subheading Question1

How can I determine, for each row, if its column value starts with a number 0-9?

Answer 1

SELECT CASE WHEN ISNUMERIC(SUBSTRING(LTRIM(Description), 1, 1)) = 1 
         THEN 'yes' 
         ELSE 'no' 
       END AS StartsWithNumber
FROM Questions 

• ISNUMERIC
• SUBSTRING