parameterized query with wildcard

[PystCat]

Why not just use merge...?

Put "John" into tVal
Put merge("SELECT * FROM foo WHERE(bar LIKE %[[tVal]])") into pSQL
OR
put merge("SELECT * FROM foo WHERE(bar LIKE %[[tVal]]%)") into pSQL

I do this for all of my queries and it works fine.

Paul




> On Jul 29, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:
> 
> If I was guessing, my hunch would be that including the single-quotes is
> going to make the db look for strings containing %:1%, instead of using the
> wildcards and the parameter.
> 
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Nope.  That doesn't work, Bob.  That returns nothing.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Should be LIKE ‘:1’ or for wild cards LIKE ‘%:1%’.
>>> 
>>> If you are searching for a value at the beginning, LIKE ‘:1%’ or at the
>>> end, LIKE ‘%:1’
>>> 
>>> If searching for all, column LIKE ‘%:1%’ OR column LIKE ‘:1%’ OR column
>>> LIKE ‘%:1’
>>> 
>>> HTH
>>> 
>>> Bob S
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jul 28, 2015, at 08:16 , Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Has anybody built any queries that use both parameters and wildcards,
>>> e.g.
>>>> in a LIKE statement?
>>>> 
>>>> SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar LIKE %:1%
>>>> 
>>>> I've tried the above (error), I've tried '%':1'%' (error), and I've
>>> tried
>>>> appending the % to the container I'm passing as my :1 (doesn't work).
>>>> 
>>>> I really don't want to do this the unsafe way.
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> 
> 
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