Thread: using like

i'm trying to query my database (6.4.2 through odbc ms access) to find all 
records matching a "like" statement.  from psql i am trying this -- select 
autoinv, company from table1 where company like 'Alice'; -- but it doesn't 
work!  i could run whatever works in psql as a passthrough query in 
access97, if i could get it to work in psql!  i'd expect the query to pull 
values of company that = "Alice w." "Alice Higgins" "Alicexxxxxxx" 
"xxxxAlice..xxx", and you get the idea.

TIA for any help!  jt

On Tue, 25 May 1999, JT Kirkpatrick wrote:

> i'm trying to query my database (6.4.2 through odbc ms access) to find all 
> records matching a "like" statement.  from psql i am trying this -- select 
> autoinv, company from table1 where company like 'Alice'; -- but it doesn't 
> work!  i could run whatever works in psql as a passthrough query in 
> access97, if i could get it to work in psql!  i'd expect the query to pull 

You need to use the wildcard for like clauses, which is % in pgsql, but 
Access uses '*':

select autoinv, company from table1 where company like '%Alice%';

Brett W. McCoy                                                   http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy
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