"Chris Priest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am currently looking at trying to port an existing Informix application > over to MySQL but I have fallen short on one particular feature. Under > Informix using its text datablade, I can have a pattern match on the text > search such that '+Tomas' would provide Thomas as well as Tomas. MySQL does > not seem to be able to support this feature. Am I doing something wrong? >
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