Re: how do I check for lower case

On 8/10/06 4:32 PM, "Juliann Meyer" <Julie(dot)Meyer(at)noaa(dot)gov> wrote:

> I have a table with a column, lets call it identifier, that is defined
> as varchar(8) that should never contain lower case letters. Its a large
> table. Is there a way to query the table to see if any values in this
> column are lower case and to get a list out? The user interface
> application that users use prevents them from adding an entry in lower
> case now, but didn't in earlier version.

select * from table where column ~ '[a-z]'

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> Julie
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