RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field

2008-05-21 Thread Gaulin, Mark
Are there a fixed set of delimiters in use in your title field? If so then you could look for: (Title = 'CAP' OR Title like 'CAP %' OR Title like '% CAP %' OR Title like '% CAP') -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field

2008-05-21 Thread Chad Gray
I know you can use square brackets and the carrot symbol to exclude characters. LIKE 'CAP[^T]%' Will give you everything that does not begin with CAPT So I _think_ you can do this. Try it and let me know. LIKE '%[^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]CAP[^abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz]%' You are probably

RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field

2008-05-21 Thread Jason Durham
In MySQL... '%CAP %' works. -Original Message- From: Gerald Guido [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:43 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: SOT: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field We are trying to tease out the following: SELECT ProjNum, ClientName,

RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field

2008-05-21 Thread Chad Gray
, but won't return records with CAPTAIN or CAPITAL. At least I think it will. Try it out. I am not in front of a MS SQL server. -Original Message- From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:17 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding

RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field

2008-05-21 Thread Chad Gray
: RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field I know you can use square brackets and the carrot symbol to exclude characters. LIKE 'CAP[^T]%' Will give you everything that does not begin with CAPT So I _think_ you can do this. Try it and let me know. LIKE

Re: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field

2008-05-21 Thread Gerald Guido
thoughts. I _think_ you can abbreviate with a-z and 1-9 instead of typing out the characters. -Original Message- From: Chad Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:27 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: MSSQL Query help - Finding an exact word in a field I re