RE: Select client from clients where name<>OK

[David FOXWELL <David.foxwell@xxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Message d'origine-----
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] De la part de Dennis Lovelady
> If you got this for legitimate business purposes, congratulations.
> Seriously. In that case, would you care to share how/why you 
> put this into practice? 'Cuz I'm really curious.

Well, it's really quite simple. I've put a contrôle in an RPG program so that users can't put certain characters in the names of clients.

I wanted to run the SQL using the same characters to get all those clients which have one of these characters in their name. After installation of the control, if a user tries to work with one of these clients, he will be obliged to correct the name before going any further.

SELECT  * from clients
where                                                
                                                          
   translate( name , ' ',                          
   '-ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ&'''  ) <> ' '    

Notice they added the hyphen and the apostrophe, no accents, no numbers, no *,etc. This listed 5400 clients.