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Old 04-09-2008, 07:38 AM
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What is the wildcard character in SQL?

Let’s say you want to query database with LIKE for all employees whose name starts with La?
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Old 04-09-2008, 08:28 PM
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hi vinoth,

I couldnt able to understand, can u explain briefly about wild card character in sql. Just now i heard about wildcard. If u have any sample query means, share with me.
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Hi,

The following example returns all the names of people in the Emp table of Test that start with La.

USE Test;
GO
SELECT Name
FROM Emp
WHERE Name LIKE 'La%';
GO

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Hey all,

The wildcard character is %, the proper query with LIKE would involve ‘La%’.
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