Re: SQL Select Statement -- MIDRANGE-L

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Joe

At 05:17 PM 1/27/1998 -0600, you wrote:
>>> Amit.Mukherjee@smed.com wrote:
>>>  Try   WHERE INVOICE = 'JANUARY''98'
>
>> Dennis Lovelady wrote:
>>  Another simple solution is
>>     WHERE INVOICE LIKE 'JAN%98' - but it's less specific.
>  
>How is that different from 'JAN_98' ? I've used % at the beginning and end
of an argument, but not in the middle.

'%' is multiple characters, '_' is a single character.

Cheers

Vernon Hamberg
Systems Software Programmer
Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
400 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
(612) 371-1111 x480


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