Case needs to be considered, eg., '%General%' or use of upper/lower
functions.

"Nguyen, David M" wrote:
> 
> I am running oracle8i on solaris8.  I have a word ( General ) in my column
> named "subject", I try to run SQL using LIKE and % to grep any data having
> the word ( General ) but it displayed no rows selected.  Does someone have
> any idea why?  Below is my SQL I used.
> 
> SQL> select * from sonusrpt where subject like '%general%';
> 
> no rows selected.
> 
> Thanks,
> David
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