Querying a SQL Server 2008 table to find values in a column containing Unicode characters

Question

I\'ve run into a problem in a project I\'m working on: some of the string values in a specific SQL Server 2008 table column contain Unicode characters. For example, instead

Answer 1

You want to find all strings that contain one or more characters outside ASCII characters 32-126.

I think this should do the job.

SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE your_column LIKE N'%[^ -~]%' collate Latin1_General_BIN