Re: Like clause in store procedure

Jawahar Rajan wrote:
> All,
> I have a stored procedure that return a Ref Cursor
> The SQL in the procedure is
>
> Procedure getPatName(in_name IN Varchar2, retCursor OUT patCursor)
> Is
> Begin
> Open retCursor For
> SELECT NAME, weight
> FROM patient
> WHERE patient_name like = in_name;
>
> End getPatName;
>
> I have defined patCursor in the spec of the package of which getPatName is a
> part of
>
> This procedure does return any rows despite the data being present I am
> assuming the SQL using like is not correct. How can I build a SQL in a
> procedure using LIKE - is the above correct?
>
> Jawahar

SELECT ...
FROM ...
WHERE patient_name LIKE '%' || in_name || '%';

Take a look at the Soundex function too: http://www.psoug.org/reference/string_func.html

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