you're breaking normalization rules.

in particular you have multiple values in the hobbies field.

hobbies should be in its own table with CustID as the foreign key.

select * from tablename where hobbies like %hockey%;




On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:27 PM, Priyanka <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> CUSTOMER
>
> CustID  FName   LName       Hobbies
>   1       Fred        Smith        Fishing, Rollerball, Hockey
>   2       Sally       Jones        Sailing
>   3       Brian       Wilson      Gliding, Sailing, Singing, Hockey
>
> now from this table i wanted to findout the customer whose hobby is
> 'Hockey' without changing the table becoz my orginal table is too
> complicated to change the schema..
> plz suggest the query...




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