Check if a column contains text using SQL

Question

I have a column which is called studentID  but I have millions of records and somehow the application has input some arbitrary text in the column   How do I search   SELECT     FROM STUDENTS  WHERE STUDENTID CONTAINS TEXT

User · Answer

Just try below script   Below code works only if studentid column datatype is varchar  SELECT   FROM STUDENTS WHERE STUDENTID like   Searchstring

User · Answer

Try LIKE construction  e g   assuming StudentId is of type Char  VarChar etc     select        from Students    where StudentId like        TEXT        --  lt - TEXT - text to contain

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Leaving database modeling issues aside   I think you can try  SELECT   FROM STUDENTS WHERE ISNUMERIC STUDENTID    0   But ISNUMERIC returns 1 for any value that seems numeric including things like -1 0e5  If you want to exclude digit-only studentids  try something like   SELECT   FROM STUDENTS WHERE STUDENTID LIKE     0-9

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Suppose STUDENTID contains some characters or numbers that you already know i e   searchstring  then below query will work for you   You could try this   select   from STUDENTS where CHARINDEX  searchstring  STUDENTID  gt 0   I think this one is the fastest and easiest one

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Try this   SElECT   FROM STUDENTS WHERE LEN CAST STUDENTID AS VARCHAR    gt  0   With this you get the rows where STUDENTID contains text

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