Select where a field contains @

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Select where a field contains @

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ldrenning
Starting Member

23 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-31 : 11:13:38

Is there a way in SQL Server to query for a character that is in a field? ... I have this old table before there was form validation, and I want to get the addresses out of the column that actually have an @.

I want to do something like this.

SELECT
email
FROM
xyz
WHERE
email contains '@'
AND
email contains '.'

any ideas? Will this work?

Thanks,
-L

sshelper
Posting Yak Master

216 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-31 : 11:19:17

You will use the LIKE function for this:

SELECT email FROM xyz WHERE email LIKE '%@%'

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mr_mist
Grunnio

1870 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-31 : 11:19:59

You could do similar, if your column is full text indexed -

USE Northwind
GO
SELECT ProductName
FROM Products
WHERE CONTAINS(ProductName, ' "choc*" ')
GO

otherwise you'd be looking at charindex -

SELECT CHARINDEX ('@', columnname) FROM yourtable

OR in your case

SELECT * from yourtable
WHERE CHARINDEX ('@', columnname) > 0

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Moo. :)

ldrenning
Starting Member

23 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-31 : 11:24:20

Thanks everyone!

madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2006-05-31 : 11:30:04

http://vyaskn.tripod.com/handling_email_addresses_in_sql_server.htm

Madhivanan

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