MSSQL Regular expression

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I have the following REGEX    -A-Za-z0-9       This currently checks whether the value entered into a textbox matches this  If not  it throws an error   I need to check whether anything has already gone into the database that doesnt match this   I have tired     SELECT   FROM  table  WHERE   url  NOT LIKE    -A-Za-z0-9          SELECT   FROM  table  WHERE PATINDEX     -A-Za-z0-9         url     UPDATE   So after a bit of research I ve realised I don t think I can use REGEXP    I thought I could do something like this  Its not giving me the expected results but its running unlike anything else  Can anyone spot anything wrong with it   SELECT       CASE WHEN  url  LIKE    -A-Za-z0-9            THEN  Match       ELSE  No Match     END Validates FROM     table

User · Accepted Answer

Thank you all for your help    This is what I have used in the end   SELECT       CASE WHEN  url  NOT LIKE     -A-Za-z0-9             THEN  Valid       ELSE  No valid     END  Validate  FROM     table    ORDER BY  Validate

User · Answer

Disclaimer  The original question was about MySQL  The SQL Server answer is below    MySQL  In MySQL  the regex syntax is the following   SELECT   FROM YourTable WHERE   url  NOT REGEXP    -A-Za-z0-9           Use the REGEXP clause instead of LIKE  The latter is for pattern matching using   and   wildcards     SQL Server  Since you made a typo  and you re using SQL Server  not MySQL   you ll have to create a user-defined CLR function to expose regex functionality   Take a look at this article for more details

User · Answer

As above the question was originally about MySQL Use REGEXP  not LIKE  SELECT   FROM  table  WHERE   url  NOT REGEXP    -A-Za-z0-9

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