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Sql Query filter

Hi,
I am working with Sql Server 2005 and trying to filter my query results with the following:

1) Contain only alphas. Therefore A-Z and a-z (including spanish character if possible e.g. Á)
2) Not starting or ending with a string that is only one character e.g. not A AAA or AAA A
3) And contains at least 2 upper case character e.g. Aaa Baaa and not Aaa baaa
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Zone: Microsoft
Question Asked By: superfly18
Solution Provided By: ScottPletcher
Participating Experts: 3
Solution Grade: A
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Comment by Zberteoc
how is this solved:

(including spanish character if possible e.g. Á) ?
 
 
Comment by superfly18
I guess in ee I'm not expecting the exact solution, however with the REGEX functions provided, I can definately get what I need done.  
 
 
Comment by ScottPletcher
Change the _AS to _AI  (accent-sensitive to accent-insensitive).  If necessary, use it in all checks:

WHERE content COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AI NOT LIKE '%[^a-z ]%'
AND content COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AI NOT LIKE '[a-z] %'
AND RIGHT(content, 2) NOT LIKE ' %'
AND content COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AI  LIKE '%[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]%[ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ]%'    


If necessary,

 
 
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