信不信由你，在我的系统中，这个丑陋的函数比G masters的优雅函数表现得更好。

CREATE FUNCTION dbo.RemoveSpecialChar (@s VARCHAR(256)) 
RETURNS VARCHAR(256) 
WITH SCHEMABINDING
    BEGIN
        IF @s IS NULL
            RETURN NULL
        DECLARE @s2 VARCHAR(256) = '',
                @l INT = LEN(@s),
                @p INT = 1

        WHILE @p <= @l
            BEGIN
                DECLARE @c INT
                SET @c = ASCII(SUBSTRING(@s, @p, 1))
                IF @c BETWEEN 48 AND 57
                   OR  @c BETWEEN 65 AND 90
                   OR  @c BETWEEN 97 AND 122
                    SET @s2 = @s2 + CHAR(@c)
                SET @p = @p + 1
            END

        IF LEN(@s2) = 0
            RETURN NULL

        RETURN @s2

我把它放在调用PatIndex的两个地方。

PatIndex('%[^A-Za-z0-9]%', @Temp)

为上面的自定义函数RemoveNonAlphaCharacters并重命名为RemoveNonAlphaNumericCharacters

这种方式没有为我工作，因为我试图保持阿拉伯字母，我试图取代正则表达式，但它也不起作用。我写了另一个方法工作在ASCII级别，因为这是我唯一的选择，它工作。

 Create function [dbo].[RemoveNonAlphaCharacters] (@s varchar(4000)) returns varchar(4000)
   with schemabinding
begin
   if @s is null
      return null
   declare @s2 varchar(4000)
   set @s2 = ''
   declare @l int
   set @l = len(@s)
   declare @p int
   set @p = 1
   while @p <= @l begin
      declare @c int
      set @c = ascii(substring(@s, @p, 1))
      if @c between 48 and 57 or @c between 65 and 90 or @c between 97 and 122 or @c between 165 and 253 or @c between 32 and 33
         set @s2 = @s2 + char(@c)
      set @p = @p + 1
      end
   if len(@s2) = 0
      return null
   return @s2
   end

GO

试试这个函数:

Create Function [dbo].[RemoveNonAlphaCharacters](@Temp VarChar(1000))
Returns VarChar(1000)
AS
Begin

    Declare @KeepValues as varchar(50)
    Set @KeepValues = '%[^a-z]%'
    While PatIndex(@KeepValues, @Temp) > 0
        Set @Temp = Stuff(@Temp, PatIndex(@KeepValues, @Temp), 1, '')

    Return @Temp
End

这样叫它:

Select dbo.RemoveNonAlphaCharacters('abc1234def5678ghi90jkl')

一旦您理解了代码，您就会发现更改它以删除其他字符也相对简单。您甚至可以使此动态到足以传入您的搜索模式。

如果您像我一样，不能仅向生产数据添加函数，但仍然想执行这种过滤，那么这里有一个纯SQL解决方案，使用PIVOT表将过滤后的部分重新组合在一起。

注意:我硬编码表高达40个字符，如果你有更长的字符串要过滤，你将不得不添加更多。

SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF;

with 
    ToBeScrubbed
as (
    select 1 as id, '*SOME 222@ !@* #* BOGUS !@*&! DATA' as ColumnToScrub
),

Scrubbed as (
    select 
        P.Number as ValueOrder,
        isnull ( substring ( t.ColumnToScrub , number , 1 ) , '' ) as ScrubbedValue,
        t.id
    from
        ToBeScrubbed t
        left join master..spt_values P
            on P.number between 1 and len(t.ColumnToScrub)
            and type ='P'
    where
        PatIndex('%[^a-z]%', substring(t.ColumnToScrub,P.number,1) ) = 0
)

SELECT
    id, 
    [1]+ [2]+ [3]+ [4]+ [5]+ [6]+ [7]+ [8] +[9] +[10]
    +  [11]+ [12]+ [13]+ [14]+ [15]+ [16]+ [17]+ [18] +[19] +[20]
    +  [21]+ [22]+ [23]+ [24]+ [25]+ [26]+ [27]+ [28] +[29] +[30]
    +  [31]+ [32]+ [33]+ [34]+ [35]+ [36]+ [37]+ [38] +[39] +[40] as ScrubbedData
FROM (
    select 
        *
    from 
        Scrubbed
    ) 
    src
    PIVOT (
        MAX(ScrubbedValue) FOR ValueOrder IN (
        [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10],
        [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16], [17], [18], [19], [20],
        [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26], [27], [28], [29], [30],
        [31], [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40]
        )
    ) pvt

这个解决方案受到Allen先生的解决方案的启发，需要一个整数的Numbers表(如果您想进行具有良好性能的严肃查询操作，您应该手头有这个表)。它不需要CTE。您可以更改NOT IN(…)表达式以排除特定字符，或将其更改为IN(…)只保留某些字符的OR LIKE表达式。

SELECT (
    SELECT  SUBSTRING([YourString], N, 1)
    FROM    dbo.Numbers
    WHERE   N > 0 AND N <= CONVERT(INT, LEN([YourString]))
        AND SUBSTRING([YourString], N, 1) NOT IN ('(',')',',','.')
    FOR XML PATH('')
) AS [YourStringTransformed]
FROM ...