Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 03/10/07 08:44

Chris (cjscully@gmail.com) writes:
> Is there a way to select records that do not contain a certain
> character string in char, vchar or text fields? For example records
> where the email field does not contain the "@" character. Can't find
> it in the BoL.

A second alternative to Matthew's:

SELECT ... FROM tbl WHERE col NOT LIKE '%@%'


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