David,
If you have General with an upper case G and are looking for general with a lower case
g, you won't return any records. It's that old case sensitive thing.
Try this:
select * from sonusrpt where Upper(subject) like '%GENERAL%';
Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nguyen, David M [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 2:33 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: LIKE and % operator
>
> I am running oracle8i on solaris8. I have a word ( General ) in my column
> named "subject", I try to run SQL using LIKE and % to grep any data having
> the word ( General ) but it displayed no rows selected. Does someone have
> any idea why? Below is my SQL I used.
>
> SQL> select * from sonusrpt where subject like '%general%';
>
> no rows selected.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
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