Question

I have a SQL statement that looks like:

SELECT [Phone] FROM [Table] WHERE (     [Phone] LIKE '[A-Z][a-z]'     OR [Phone] = 'N/A'     OR [Phone] LIKE '[0]' ) 

The part I’m having trouble with is the where statement with the ‘LIKEs’. I’ve seen SQL statements where authors used like statements in the way I’m using them above. At first, I thought this might be a version of Regular Expressions but I’ve since learned.

Is anyone familiar with using like statements in such a way. Note: the ‘N/A’ is working fine.

What I need to match is phone numbers that have characters. Or phone numbers which contain nothing but zero.

Answer 1

Check here.

[] matches a range of characters.

I think you want something like this:

SELECT [Phone] FROM [Table] WHERE (     [Phone] LIKE '%[A-Z]%'     OR [Phone] LIKE '%[a-z]%'     OR [Phone] = 'N/A'     OR [Phone] LIKE '0' )