How to find Special character in a string using SQL LIKE operator

Ahmed S — Fri, 03 May 2013 07:43:00 +0000

How to find a special character in a string

Query – I

This query finds all special character in a string.

SELECT Employeeid,FirstName FROMEmployees

WHERE FirstName like ‘%[^0-9A-Z]%’

Query – II

This query finds only a specified special character in a string.

SELECT Employeeid,FirstName FROMEmployees

WHERE FirstName like ‘%[@,#,$,%,*]%’

Query – III

This query finds numeric value in a string.

SELECT Employeeid,FirstName FROM Employees

WHERE FirstName like ‘%[0-9]%’

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