select tst, count(*) howmany from ( select contentid, text, case when patindex('% charindex('\u8209?', text) then 'TRUE' else 'FALSE' end tst from contents where text like '%link:reference%' and text like '%\u8209?%') t1 --where tst = 'TRUE' group by tst select * from items where itemid in (66766, 66770) select dbo.ve_getshortpathfromcontentid(contentid) location, text, patindex('% charindex('\u8209?', text) and charindex('\u8209?', text) > 0