Oracle-L: RE: LIKE and % operator

From: Kevin Lange <kgel_at_ppoone.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 13:03:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0041EB4F.20020304130326@fatcity.com>

Think Case .....

Is the word actually in lower case ??? Is it upper case G and then lower case eneral ??

Best way to be sure is

SQL> select * from sonusrpt where upper(subject) like '%GENERAL%';

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Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:33 PM
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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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