That query doesn't make sense... All you are looking for is to get a resultset containing ONLY the rows where name is John. So, just write:
SELECT ID, NAME, ADDRESS FROM users WHERE NAME='John'; By the way, in SQL, the wildcard character for regular expressions is the '%' not '*' . Gurhan -----Original Message----- From: Morten Nielsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 4:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP-DB] Wildcards Hi, I am trying to make a SELECT command like this: $qid =db_query(" SELECT ID, NAME, ADDRESS FROM users WHERE ID=* AND NAME='John' "); Is it somehow possible to have a wildcard, so it returns all records, where the name is john and the ID is not important? Regards, Morten -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
