Re: conditions in select * from
| From: | Morten Dreier | Date: | Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: conditions in select * from | ||
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On Sun, 18 Jun 2000, sarahana wrote:
> Hi,
> I was just wondering...
>
> Let's say a user chooses a word. And I want to select those entries in a
> database table for which the word exists as a PART of the data of the
> field name... i.e. the word may not be the data in the name field, but
> it may be a PART of the string.
>
> How can I do that?
Depends on what database you are running.
MySQL does it like this:
<URL:http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Reference.html#String_comparison_functions>
The LIKE operator is the same in most SQL implementations.
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Morten Dreier
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http://www.ifi.ntnu.no/~mdreier/