Re: conditions in select * from
| From: | David Robley | Date: | Mon, 19 Jun 2000 06:11:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: conditions in select * from | ||
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On 18 Jun, 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?
You really should have a look at your SQL manual, particularly the part
about wildcards and LIKE
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