Elin,
Tuesday, September 10, 2002, 12:03:21 PM, you wrote:

ER> I have a table called users with the columns firstname and lastname. I would
ER> like to do a search on the fullname and have tried:

ER> select * from users where (firstname + ' ' + lastname) = "John Smith"

ER> which returns all rows for some reason and not only the rows with users
ER> named John Smith (which SQL Server does). Any ideas?

Take a look at CONCAT()/CONCAT_WS() functions:
     http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_functions.html



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