Jeffrey,
The best thing you can do is to have the wildcard % as
late as possible in your search condition.
So do like 'd%' instead of like '%d%' if you can.
Regards,
Nikolaus
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:34:40 -0600, "Diehl, Jeffrey"
wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a fairly large table with a char(20) field in
it
> which I search on
> quite a bit. The problem is that I tend to do a lot
of
> "...where field like '%-d%'" type searches on this
> field.
>
> Is there any to speed up this type of search?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mike Diehl.
>
>
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