Question :
I have a table with the column f_Name
. The column f_name
sometimes contains special characters and numbers as in the examples below:
f_name
-----------
Pan23's
Ram'kumar
lawer"s()
I want to retrieve all the values of f_name
which have a special character or number.
Answer :
Try This:
SELECT F_name FROM tablename WHERE F_name LIKE '%[^a-Z0-9]%'
What this does is search for
%.....% : a string
[.....] : that contains any of the mentioned characters
^ : well actually none of the mentioned characters
a-Z : from lower-case a through to upper-case Z
0-9 : or any digit
Which results in a search for any character other than a-z
, A-Z
or 0-9
.
Strings that match this would be:
test'user
something?else
I#can#fly
Reference: LIKE (Transact-SQL) (Microsoft | SQL Docs)
After re-reading your question, I would use just:
SELECT F_name FROM tablename WHERE F_name LIKE '%[^a-Z]%'
…because you want to retrieve rows with numbers too.