On 8/10/06 4:32 PM, "Juliann Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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]'

> 
> Julie
> 
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Daryl

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