SQL Server - How to Remove Special Characters from String in SQL Server 2008

Introduction:

Here I will explain how to remove special characters from string in sql server 2008 with spaces or sql server replace special characters in string with spaces in sql server 2008 or replace unwanted characters in string in sql server.

Description:

In previous articles I explained replace multiple spaces with single space in sql, reseed identity column value in sql server, get time difference between two dates in sql, substring function in SQL server and many articles relating to SQL server. Now I will explain how to remove special characters from string with spaces in sql server 2008.

To replace special characters from string with spaces in sql server we need to write the query like this

DECLARE @regex INT,@string varchar(100) SET @string='welcome-to''aspdotnet=sures@h.com#$' SET @regex = PATINDEX('%[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]%', @string) WHILE @regex > 0 BEGIN SET @string = STUFF(@string, @regex, 1, ' ' ) SET @regex = PATINDEX('%[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]%', @string) END SELECT @string

Once we run above query we will get output like as shown below

Output:

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