On Wednesday 19 February 2003 12:51, Reto Baudenbacher wrote: > newbie-question, sorry... > > is it possible to write this (working) query in a shorter form: > > SELECT * FROM $table WHERE (col1 LIKE '%$term%') OR (col2 LIKE '%$term%') > OR (col3 LIKE '%$term%')
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