Regular expressions
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http://www.tutorialspoint.com/mysql/mysql-introduction.htm
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/mysql/mysql-regexps.htm
Example
mysql> SELECT uid,whencreated,employeetype,mail,proxyaddresses FROM adfields WHERE employeeType='Student' AND proxyaddresses NOT LIKE '%alumni%' AND proxyaddresses NOT REGEXP 'smtp:[a-z]{2,3}[0-9]' AND mail NOT REGEXP '^[a-z]{2,3}[0-9]' ORDER BY whencreated DESC ;