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Newbie SQL programmer.

Here is my issue.
I have a field, memid, varchar 30. I want to look at positions 1-9. If all are 9 positions are numeric , move those to memssn int field.
Can anyone assist me?

thanks

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update tablename set memssn = cast(substring(memid,1,9) as int)
where substring(memid,1,9) like
              replicate('[0-9]',9)
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