SQL Server, combining % and [] wildcards in LIKE statement

Question

In t-sql, is there a way to do pattern matching in a like statement such that you can search for 1 or more characters in a given set?

To be specific, I\'m trying to

Answer 1

Like pattern matching is very limited, it does not allow for normal regular expressions.

See here for details.

For your needs use:

WHERE ColumnName LIKE '[a-z]%[0-9]'

This will match any letter followed by anything, followed by a number. SQL will enforce that the letter and number are at the two ends of the string because there is no pattern or literal character before or after our [] match set.