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

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

finds all strings that contain one or more characters within ASCII characters 32-126.

I thought the purpose was to find strings where ASCII characters are not in the range 32-126?

NOT is possible with LIKE. Wouldn't this work?

SELECT *
FROM your_table
WHERE your_column NOT LIKE N'%[^ -~]%'

No collate required.