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Aequitas
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 Posted - 2008-10-30 : 15:25:01
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| Pardon what may be a very simple question:I am querying a database for records that contain the phrase "North Street RLN 2002-4", within a field called PATH. When I use the CONTAINS operator I recieve records with the values differing from the specified pharse, such as "North Street RLN 2002-1a."I have done research (unsucessfully) to determin what part of my string is causing this. Should I be using the CONTAINS operator at all, or would LIKE be the correct option? Does SQL treat the "-" as a wildcard?Thank you in advance for any input. |
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hanbingl
Aged Yak Warrior
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Posted - 2008-10-30 : 15:33:52
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| LIKE will do the trick and no "-" is not a wildcard |
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Aequitas
Starting Member
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Posted - 2008-10-30 : 16:23:33
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| Thank you for your quick response. I will continue with the LIKE statement. |
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CONTAINS operator within SQL