• asranantha,

    Review CharIndex (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186323.aspx), this will help you to search for the value you are looking for:

    select charindex('m' /*search value*/, 'sas programer ' /*column to search*/)

    from SomeTable

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