On Thursday 29 November 2001 23:50, Graham Nichols wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a table which contains a column 'category'
>
>
> 'category' can be made up as records such as:
>
> christmas|birthday|easter
> easter|thanksgiving
> birthday|christmas|thanksgiving|easter
>
> etc .....
>
> As you can see, items are delimited with a '|' in the fields. If I wish to
> select all records which contain 'christmas', what is the correct sql
> syntax please?
> (This should return records 1 and 3 from the example shown above)
SELECT * FROM table WHERE category LIKE '%christmas%'
should do the trick.
hth
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Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk
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