How to check if a string is a uniqueidentifier?

Question

Is there an equivalent to IsDate or IsNumeric for uniqueidentifier (SQL Server)? Or is there anything equivalent to (C#) TryParse?

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Answer 1

I am not aware of anything that you could use "out of the box" - you'll have to write this on your own, I'm afraid.

If you can: try to write this inside a C# library and deploy it into SQL Server as a SQL-CLR assembly - then you could use things like Guid.TryParse() which is certainly much easier to use than anything in T-SQL....