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

If you want to use Regex and have permissions, you can write a user defined function to give yourself access to the Regular Expressions parser on the SQL server's .NET CLR:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163473.aspx (SQL 2005 and higher)