Question

I have special selection criterion for particular column and need the regular epxression for that.
e.g: A123456, S008942
this id’s should get selected only
The first letter is alphabet and next 6 letters are digits.
It will always be like total of 7 letters (1Alphabet+6NumericDigits)

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

Using SQL server pattern matching: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187489%28SQL.90%29.aspx

SELECT *
FROM [table]
WHERE [column] LIKE '[A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]'

It is unfortunately limited, but maybe it will get what you need?