How to find rows that have a value that contains a lowercase letter

Question

I\'m looking for an SQL query that gives me all rows where ColumnX contains any lowercase letter (e.g. \"1234aaaa5789\"). Same for uppercase.

Answer 1

Logically speaking Rohit's solution should have worked, but it didn't. I think SQL Management Studio messed up when trying to optimize this.

But by modifying the string before comparing them I was able to get the right results. This worked for me:

SELECT [ExternalId]
FROM [EquipmentSerialsMaster] where LOWER('0'+[ExternalId]) COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS != '0'+[ExternalId]