Column Wild Card in Where statement

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Column Wild Card in Where statement

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Draconis_KoHF
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Posted - 2009-02-05 : 12:57:06

I have a table with about 10 columns of people's names (Engineer Name, Manager Name, Designer Name, Drafter Name, Shop Name, Painter Name...). We want to do a search page that will return results when they enter a name to search by. Is there a easy way to do a search statement like
SELECT * FROM tblNames WHERE (* LIKE '%John%')

I would like to keep from listing all the columns and it's where clase (WHERE [Manager] LIKE '%John%' OR [Engineer] LIKE '%John%' OR [Designer] LIKE '%John%' OR [Drafter] LIKE ...)

Thanks.

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2009-02-05 : 13:01:41

http://www.mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1522

tonymorell10
Yak Posting Veteran

90 Posts

Posted - 2009-02-05 : 16:23:48

You could create a simple view to give you a list of the names and Titles:


CREATE VIEW vw_Names 
AS
	SELECT 'Engineer' As Title, [Engineer Name] As [Name] FROM tblNames
	UNION ALL
	SELECT 'Manager', [Manager Name]  FROM tblNames
	UNION ALL
	SELECT 'Designer', [Designer Name]  FROM tblNames
	UNION ALL
	SELECT 'Drafter', [Drafter Name]  FROM tblNames
	UNION ALL
	SELECT 'Shop', [Shop Name]  FROM tblNames
	UNION ALL
	SELECT 'Painter', [Painter Name]  FROM tblNames
GO


SELECT Title, [Name] FROM vw_Names
WHERE [Name] LIKE '%John%'

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