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crsri
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Posted - 2009-08-26 : 19:22:01

Below is my query,

CHARINDEX(B.PHONEBUILD+'_',A.JOBNAME)>0

The above statement gives all the phonebuild which matches with jobname and have '_' in the jobname
eg results:

PhoneBuild Jobname
Q6270BKPRQL136022 Q6270BKPRQL136022_11JUL2009_002854am
Q6270BKPDZL136022 Q6270BKPDZL136022_11JUL2009_003046am

i am looking for the phonebuild which are exact match with jobname,
something like below

PhoneBuild Jobname
Q6270BKPRQL136022 Q6270BKPRQL136022
Q6270BKPDZL136018 Q6270BKPDZL136018

Please Help

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2009-08-26 : 23:13:39

[code]
select *
from yourtable
where PhoneBuild = left(Jobname, len(PhoneBuild))
[/code]

KH
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madhivanan
Premature Yak Congratulator

22864 Posts

Posted - 2009-08-27 : 01:41:46

select *
from yourtable
where Jobname like PhoneBuild+'%'

Madhivanan

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senthil_nagore
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

1007 Posts

Posted - 2009-08-27 : 02:10:49

You can try sub string too

select *
from yourtable
where PhoneBuild = substring( Jobname,0,charindex('_', Jobname))

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