Hi Karsten, I'm quite sure you have special characters in the end of the field T_Instance for T_Instance like "VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG". Can you display the contents of this field in hex format?
Regards, Laercio. -----Original Message----- From: Karsten Backhaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quinta-feira, 1 de julho de 2004 06:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: select, = and like Hi, im running mysql-4.0.18-2, all tables are innodb tables. I found the following which i dont understand: one of my tables is named 'PARAMSET_EXT': mysql> explain PARAMSET_EXT; +------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ | PS_Name | varchar(64) | | PRI | | | | T_Instance | varchar(64) | | PRI | | | | User | varchar(64) | YES | | NULL | | | Modified | bigint(80) | | | 0 | | | D_ID | int(11) | YES | MUL | NULL | | | Confirmed | tinyint(1) | | | 0 | | +------------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> now i send the following select statement and get the following results: mysql> select PS_Name, T_Instance, User from PARAMSET_EXT where PS_Name mysql> = "1"; +---------+--------------------------+--------+ | PS_Name | T_Instance | User | +---------+--------------------------+--------+ | 1 | L2_SD_LOOP_DATA1 | vai_l2 | | 1 | VA_SD_FUCHSPLATTE | vai_l2 | | 1 | VA_SD_GIESSPULVER | vai_l2 | | 1 | VA_SD_GIESSROHRWECHSEL | vai_l2 | | 1 | VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG | vai_l2 | | 1 | VA_SD_VERTEILEREINBAUTEN | vai_l2 | +---------+--------------------------+--------+ 6 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> now i send the following select statement and get the following result: mysql> select PS_Name, T_Instance, User from PARAMSET_EXT where mysql> T_Instance = "VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG"; Empty set (0.01 sec) mysql> ok, i expected to get the entry | 1 | VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG | vai_l2 | but, i got an "empty set". (note, that selecting for "T_Instance"s other than "VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG" works!) however, the following statement works fine: mysql> select PS_Name, T_Instance, User from PARAMSET_EXT where mysql> T_Instance like "VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG"; +---------+-----------------------+--------+ | PS_Name | T_Instance | User | +---------+-----------------------+--------+ | 1 | VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG | vai_l2 | -------------------------------------------- and now, since the "_" character is a wildcard in the "like" context, i tried: mysql> select PS_Name, T_Instance, User from PARAMSET_EXT where mysql> T_Instance like "VA\_SD\_STOPFENFUEHRUNG"; Empty set (0.00 sec) mysql> which results in an empty set. why does selecting for "VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG" not work? Is this some kind of bug or is there anything iam doing wrong? note, that there are NO special characters in "VA_SD_STOPFENFUEHRUNG", except of the "_" which is allowed in this context, isnt it? regards Karsten -- perl -MLWP::Simple -e '$u="http://www.dilbert.com";foreach(split/>/, LWP::Simple::get($u)){LWP::Simple::getstore("$u$1","dilbert.gif") if(m#<IMG SRC="(/comics/dilbert/archive/images/[^"]*)"#)}' -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]