Re: PL/SQL Question

Bor-Ren Jeng wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I am new in the oracle world. I have a very simple question in the sql.
>
> I have a column is the title of books in a table . Now
> if I want to select all the record has the "food" in the title field(e.g
> Italien Food, Chinese Food or .....). What I try is:
>
> select title from book_table
> where title like '%:input_title%';
>
> The :input_title is a varable which is input from a input box in a form.
>
> What this query returned is the title = 'food' not the title like '%food%'
> Do I miss something here?
>
> Thank you for your help!
>
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try
select title from book_table
where title like '%'||:input_title||'%';

--Slava Received on Mon Oct 21 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST