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

This is a function based on the concept of some earlier comments. This function is very fast.

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[IsGuid] (@input varchar(50))  
    RETURNS bit AS  
BEGIN

RETURN 
    case when @input like '[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]-[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]'
    then 1 else 0 end
END
GO

/* 
Usage: 

select [dbo].[IsGuid]('123') -- Returns 0
select [dbo].[IsGuid]('ebd8aebd-7ea3-439d-a7bc-e009dee0eae0') -- Returns 1

select * from SomeTable where dbo.IsGuid(TableField) = 0 -- Returns table with all non convertable items!

*/