"Mahalakshmi.m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Rowid Id Album > 1 4 aaaa > 2 3 cccc > 3 2 dddd > 4 1 eeee > > SELECT rowid,Album FROM Temp WHERE Album like 'c%'; > Output: rowed -> 2 and Album -> cccc > > My doubt is for this statement > "SELECT rowid , Album FROM Temp WHERE Album like 'b%'; " I am not > having any Album with match pattern starting with b so I want the > rowed and Album for the string next to the provided ie, rowed ->3 > and Album -> cccc.
select rowid, album from temp where album >= 'b' collate nocase order by album limit 1; That should work both when there is and isn't a match. Igor Tandetnik _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
