Searching for rows containing underscores in SQL Server

Is it possible to search for a row or rows with particular strings containing an underscore? Suppose I have various email addresses all containing an underscore like [email protected], hj_bus@ where.com, etc. How can I search for those particular emails? If I use a WHERE clause such as 'WHERE eMail LIKE '%_' it returns all rows. 'WHERE eMail LIKE 'gm_%' returns rows that do not contain an underscore. Can you offer any suggestions?

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The underscore character is a single character wildcard in the same way the percent sign is a multi-character wild card. To query for an underscore character you need to wrap the underscore in square brackets: WHERE email LIKE 'gm[_]%'. If you want to search for all email addresses with a two character value then an underscore, this WHERE clause would work: WHERE email like '__[_]%@%'.

This was first published in August 2007

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