Re: MySQL general Question...
| From: | John W. Holmes | Date: | Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:56:20 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: MySQL general Question... | ||
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Tristan.Pretty@risk.sungard.com wrote:
What's teh diffence between 'LIKE' & '=' EG: SELECT & FROM my_table WHERE 'email' LIKE '123@hotmail.com'= is an equality (case insensitive). LIKE allows you to use the % character as a wildcard (will match any amount of characters) and the _ character as a wildcard to match a single character. In your example, LIKE is being used ineffeciently.
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