RE: LIKE and % operator

David,

If you have General with an upper case G and are looking for general with a lower case g, you won't return any records. It's that old case sensitive thing.

Try this:

        select * from sonusrpt where Upper(subject) like '%GENERAL%';

Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle_at_scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nguyen, David M [SMTP:david.m.nguyen_at_xo.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:33 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: LIKE and % operator
>
> 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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