On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 06:45:24AM -0700, Rich Shepard scratched on the wall: > I cannot select rows from a table using the WHERE clause and cannot find > my error. Perhaps others will see what I miss. > > The table, Companies, has 1500+ rows. One column is defined as > state CHAR(2), > > but the select statement seeking all rows where state = 'OR' for example > returns nothing: > > sqlite> select * from Companies where state = 'OR'; > sqlite>
Try: "select quote( state ) from companies group by state;" That will put quotes around the values. Look for leading/trailing spaces. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Intelligence is like underwear: it is important that you have it, but showing it to the wrong people has the tendency to make them feel uncomfortable." -- Angela Johnson _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users