How to filter rows where multiple columns meet criteria, ignoring rows where only some columns meet criteria

Question

Hi All,
Question: How do I filter rows out of a query where multiple columns are equal to a single question mark character?
Background: I'm using SQL 2008 R2.  Furthermore, the part of my brain that helps me create less-than-simple queries hasn't been working for the last 4 days, apparently, and now I need help.
We have about 4,000 rows in a table.  This data set was generated from an exported report, and many of the rows in the detail table were not actual data rows but were simply "header" rows.  For those table rows, most of the columns have
a single question mark as the value.
Some of the detail rows have one or more question mark values, too, so it's important that these rows don't get filtered out.
When I include criteria like "WHERE col1 <> '?' AND col2 <> '?' AND col3 <> '?' AND col4 <> '?'", all rows with a question mark value for even a single one of those columns get filtered out.  How do I filter out rows
where all columns 1-4 contain a question mark value?
Thanks for your help,
Eric

Answer 1

I just tried to create to create a scenario for you. Please see ig you're looking for something like this.
Create table test_Question_mark
RecordID INT identity(1,1),
Col1 varchar(10),
Col2 varchar(10),
Col3 varchar(10),
Col4 varchar(10),
insert into test_Question_mark (Col1, Col2, Col3, col4) values ('?','?','?','?')
insert into test_Question_mark (Col1, Col2, Col3, col4) values ('?','??','?','?')
insert into test_Question_mark (Col1, Col2, Col3, col4) values ('?','??','??','?')
insert into test_Question_mark (Col1, Col2, Col3, col4) values ('??','??','??','??')
insert into test_Question_mark (Col1, Col2, Col3, col4) values ('?','?','?','?')
insert into test_Question_mark (Col1, Col2, Col3, col4) values ('??','test ??','??','??')
insert into test_Question_mark (Col1, Col2, Col3, col4) values ('??','test ?','??','??')
--drop table test_Questio_mark
select * from test_Question_mark
select * from test_Question_mark 
WHERE 
(CHARINDEX('?', Col1,1) > 0 AND CHARINDEX('?', Col1, CHARINDEX('?', Col1,1)+1) = 0) AND 
(CHARINDEX('?', Col2) > 0 AND CHARINDEX('?', Col2, CHARINDEX('?', Col2,1)+1) = 0) AND 
(CHARINDEX('?', Col3,1) > 0 AND CHARINDEX('?', Col3, CHARINDEX('?', Col3,1)+1) = 0) AND 
(CHARINDEX('?', Col4,1) > 0 AND CHARINDEX('?', Col4, CHARINDEX('?', Col4,1)+1) = 0) 
--drop table test_Questio_mark
I hope above solution will help.
Thanks!
Ashish.