SQL LIKE Keyword

LIKE Keyword

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The LIKE

You can use two wildcards with

Like

_ - Represents a single character (MS Access uses a question mark (?) instead)

Example

SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'a%';
The following SQL selects all customers with a CustomerName ending with "a":

Example

SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '%a';
The following SQL selects all customers with a CustomerName that have "or" in any position:

Example

SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE '%or%';
The following SQL statement selects all customers with a CustomerName that starts with "a" and are at least 3 characters in length:

Example

SELECT * FROM Customers
WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'a__%';

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