Using regular expression within a stored procedure

Question

What is the regular expression pattern that enables every input besides characters? So far this is what i have -

CREATE PROCEDURE Paging_Movies
@alphaChar ch         


        

Answer 1

SQL Server 2008 R2 has some regular expression functions built-in.

Here's a link explaining how to extract them and use them in your own database.

Answer 2

If you want true regular expression pattern matching you will need to roll your own CLR UDF. This link goes over how to do that:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163473.aspx

Keep in mind that you can only do this in SQL Server 2005 or higher.

If you just want non-alpha you can do this:

'([^a-z])'

Here is the documentation for SQL Server like:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179859.aspx