Check for unicode within an ntext

Hey all,
I've got to check an ntext column if it actually does contain unicode characters or not. I would prefer to not have to iterate through every character in each column, is there a simple way to do this in sql server 2000?
Cheers,
-KilkaCAST or CONVERT it to text, and monitor for errors.|||That's a great idea, thanks Blindman.

Cheers,
-Kilka

check field

Hi, how to find out what table, field contain "mysearchtext" in side? Thanks
a lot.Check out the INFORMATION_SCHEMA system views for more info, but here's
something you can use fight now:
select INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS].TABLE_NAME
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS]
where (INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS].COLUMN_NAME = 'mysearchtext')
ML
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> Hi, how to find out what table, field contain "mysearchtext" in side?
> Thanks a lot.
You want to search through all tables and columns?
A combination of the undocumented stored procedure "sp_MSforeachtable",
this statement: select column_name from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where
table_name = 'tableName'
a cursor,
dynamic SQL
and: select ... from tableName where columnName like '%mysearchtext%'|||Thanks ML,
How about search field content? hwo to do that?
"ML" <ML@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Check out the INFORMATION_SCHEMA system views for more info, but here's
> something you can use fight now:
> select INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS].TABLE_NAME
> from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS]
> where (INFORMATION_SCHEMA.[COLUMNS].COLUMN_NAME = 'mysearchtext')
>
> ML
> --
> http://milambda.blogspot.com/