From: Ian Johannesen <ij@perlpimp.dk>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Cc: Rob Kirkbride <rob@rkcomputing.co.uk>
Subject: Re: 'select where' using multiple columns.
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 12:24:19 +0200
Message-ID: <42F33E53.3000002@perlpimp.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <42F33585.1090706@rkcomputing.co.uk>
References: <42F33585.1090706@rkcomputing.co.uk>
Hi.
Rob Kirkbride wrote:
> I've googled around for this but can't see a decent way of doing this :
>
> I've got a persons name which is being stored say in 3 columns :-
> Title, Forename_1, Forename_2, Surname. I want to allow a search say for
> 'John Smith'. Problem is I can't just break it up into forename and
> surname because I won't also know.
> Is there a way to do something like a
> 'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%' ??
>
> Thanks for any help. Apologies if its a FAQ.
SELECT * FROM table WHERE forename_1 || ' ' || forename_2 || ' ' ||
surname LIKE '%String%';
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