From: Ries van Twisk <pg@rvt.dds.nl>
To: landsharkdaddy <ldodd@landsharksoftware.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query with Parameters and Wildcards
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:12:38 -0500
Message-ID: <450092BA-41F2-4CCF-9598-9F4DF2B18FFA@rvt.dds.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23248274.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <23248274.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Apr 26, 2009, at 7:21 PM, landsharkdaddy wrote:
>
> I have a query that works on SQL Server to return customers that
> contain the
> string entered by the user by accepting parameters and using the LIKE
> keyword. I would like to move this to postgreSQL but I'm just not
> sure how
> to get it done. This is the query
>
> SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName LIKE @custfirst + '%';
>
> This works great on SQL Server but not on postgreSQL. Any help would
> be
> appreciated.
Why didn't it work? Any error message), or no result?
Are you expecting case-insensitivity (try ILIKE)
regards, Ries van Twisk
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