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Find distinct special characters in column

  • August 11, 2008 at 5:59 pm

    #856434

    shamshad.ali (8/11/2008)

    I need to list them down. if there is a way. also how should i exclude space" " and dot"." from [a-z0-9]

    Thanks all for help...

    Shamshad Ali.

    Shamshad... have you tried Peso's script?

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    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
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  • August 11, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    #856494

    SELECT * FROM tbl_user

    WHERE UserName LIKE '%[^a-z0-9 ._-]%'

    This gives me the result of all those specail characters like $ and hyphen and so on. Its fine. Thanks, Thanks everyone ...

    Shamshad Ali.

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