Select only upper case data in field

• Digs

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  December 23, 2010 at 5:35 pm

  #388498

  If I have in a field

  ANBDS

  ABV

  DD

  !DF

  @DSF

  DF:FF

  HgJJ

  How can I get only:

  ANBDS

  ABV

  DD

  HGJJ

  I know I can I use UPPER, but how to filter out the others, whats the wild card trick for this ?

  Thanks:-)

• mister.magoo

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  December 23, 2010 at 6:13 pm

  #1266103

  The first trick is to define what you want to exclude....

  Then you can use the old double negative...

  WHERE [column] not like '%[^A-Za-z]%'

  where [^A-Za-z] means anything that is not a letter, and %[^A-Za-z]% means "contains anything that is not a letter"

  so you ask for anything which is not ("contains anything that is not a letter")

  MM
  

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  select geometry::STGeomFromWKB(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