Question

In SQL Server, I have a string column that contains numbers. Each entry I need is only one number so no parsing is needed. I need some way to find all rows that contain numbers from 400 to 450. Instead of doing:

...where my stringcolumn like '%400%' or stringcolumn like '%401%' or stringcolumn like '%402%' or ...

is there a better that can save on some typing?

There are also other values in these rows such as: ‘5335154’, [e-mail]’, ‘555-555-5555’. Filtering those out will need to be taken into account.

Answer 1

...where stringcolumn like '4[0-4][0-9]' OR stringcolumn = '450'

You don’t need the wildcard if you want to restrict to 3 digits.