From: Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com>
To: landsharkdaddy <ldodd@landsharksoftware.com>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Query with Parameters and Wildcards
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:54:17 -0600
Message-ID: <dcc563d10904262154n19dd9f77pe81fe23eebeeac2e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23248274.post@talk.nabble.com>
References: <23248274.post@talk.nabble.com>
On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:21 PM, landsharkdaddy
<ldodd@landsharksoftware.com> 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.
Have you tried:
SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName LIKE 'custfirst%';
What does the @ do in sql server?
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