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?

Otherwise I\'ll have to write my o

Answer 1

Though an older post, just a thought for a quick test ...

SELECT  [A].[INPUT],
        CAST([A].[INPUT] AS [UNIQUEIDENTIFIER])
FROM   (
            SELECT '5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B' Collate Latin1_General_100_BIN AS [INPUT]
            UNION ALL
            SELECT '{5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B}'
            UNION ALL
            SELECT '5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01BXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX'
            UNION ALL
            SELECT '{5D944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B}ssssssssss'
            UNION ALL
            SELECT 'ÀD944516-98E6-44C5-849F-9C277833C01B'
            UNION ALL
            SELECT 'fish'
        ) [A]
WHERE   PATINDEX('[^0-9A-F-{}]%', [A].[INPUT]) = 0