Question : Query To Detect if unicode data exists in field in SQL Server 2005

Hello,

  I was wondering if there was a way to detect if a particular field in an MSSQL 2k5 database table contains unicode characters ( i.e. russian, chinese, etc ).

Essentially, I have a table with lots of values in different languages and I want to pull the info for ONLY the ones that contain unicode data and not fields that do not contain unicode data.

 

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Answer : Query To Detect if unicode data exists in field in SQL Server 2005

One quick way would be to use something like this:

SELECT * FROM mytable WHERE PATINDEX('%[^[ a-z0-9!@#$%^&*()-_=+]%' ,myfield)  > 0

You might have to add more characters to this, but this is just a quick example.