Find distinct special characters in column

• Jeff Moden

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  August 11, 2008 at 5:59 pm

  #856434

  shamshad.ali (8/11/2008)

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  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?

  --Jeff Moden

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• shamshad.ali

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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.