On 5 Aug 2010, at 8:42pm, Sam Roberts wrote: > select substr(name,1,1), count(*) from my_table where name like '%e%' > group by substr(name,1,1);
If you are constantly going to be using the first character of the name like that, give it a column of its own with its own index. Simon. _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
