Re: Using LIKE to search for occurence of a column value in a string

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Moore
On Saturday, March 29, 2003, at 07:41 AM, Trevor Smith wrote: 2. your syntax just seems wrong. This should be: SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE NeedleColumn LIKE '%needle%'; to search for the string 'needle' anywhere in NeedleColumn, if that's what you were looking for. I'm jumping in mid-stream so

Re: Using LIKE to search for occurence of a column value in a string

2003-03-29 Thread Jeff Moore
I am having the same problem. This Query: SELECT 'haystack needle haystack' LIKE concat('%', 'needle', '%') returns 1 However, this query does not work correctly If you generalize is to include a database column: SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE 'haystack needle haystack' LIKE CONCAT('%', NeedleC