SQL Server 2008 query to find rows containing non-alphanumeric characters in a column

Question

I was actually asked this myself a few weeks ago, whereas I know exactly how to do this with a SP or UDF but I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way of doing this

Answer 1

Sql server has very limited Regex support. You can use PATINDEX with something like this

PATINDEX('%[a-zA-Z0-9]%',Col)

Have a look at PATINDEX (Transact-SQL)

and Pattern Matching in Search Conditions