Hi, I've some data out of a legacy application which has a list of names and mailing addresses for contacts. The legacy data is from a DG database. Every few weeks my sql database will be repopulated. There are four varchar(30) fields describing names and addresses (name1,add1,add2, add3). The client name often has more than 30 characters and these records are overflowed into the next field and identified with a '/' in column 1 of the add1 field. The metadata indicates name may even overflow into add2(again marked by a '/' in column 1 of the field).
I've worked around the problem with a query structured like this select Person_Name1 From Persons Where CONCAT(IFNULL(Person_Name1,""),IFNULL(Person_Add1,""), IFNULL(Person_Add2,"")) like '%Wilson%' This works well but as you can see I get all names like 'Wilson' but also select streets named Wilson. Is it possible to select the names from all records and correctly look at the continuation records? My tests are with MySQL but the final engine may be sql server (not my call!). TIA DB -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
