Use CHARINDEX instead:

select * from landscapeplan where CHARINDEX(char(13),taxid) > 0

Kurt

>I imported an Excel spreadsheet into SQL and found out that some of the columns have carriage returns in them. I can see them in EM when I browse the table however I cannot see them in QA.
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>I was trying to come up with a way to remove them but I cannot get the select to work with would return the rows with a CR in.
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>select * from landscapeplan where taxid like '%char(13)%'
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>update landscapeplan set taxid = replace(taxid,char(13),'')
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>Thanks In advance
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>Quinn