parameterized query with wildcard

[Bob Sneidar]

If you copied and pasted it may be that the small quotes are not the right characters. I have used this query successfully myself so I may have mistyped something. 

Bob S


> On Jul 29, 2015, at 06:31 , 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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