On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Glenn MacGregor wrote:
> Thanks,
>
> Now is it possible to do the following:
>
> select table1.* from
> table1, table2 where
> table1.col3=table2.key and
> table2.username like 'CURRENT_USER%'
>
> This is returning nothing when I know it should be returning something, so I
> think that since the CURRENT_USER is in the ' it is not executing the
> function. Is there a way to make that execute using the like with the regex
> matching (%)?
Do you really want a like search or are you trying to get around it not
matching something?
table2.username like CURRENT_USER || '%' would probably work.