November 11, 2004 at 5:59 pm
I am trying to find other alternatives to LIKE '%word' search clause so I that I would not need to use wildcard.
Here is what I came up:
Select OriginatingID
FROM m
Where LEFT(OriginatingID, 4) = ANY (SELECT OrigID FROM tmpO)
tmpO table has 4 character strings that needs to be compared against last four character strings in m table. LEFT(OriginatingID, 4) should give a column of four character strings to comapre against. but it doesn;t work.... any ideas
November 11, 2004 at 8:06 pm
The alternative to
where field like '%word' is
where RIGHT(field,4) = 'word'
LEFT(field,4) gets the first four characters of field, not the final four.
Regards
Phil
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November 12, 2004 at 12:51 am
Well, since both methods can't use an index anyway, don't expect good performance on larger tables. I'm not that much into Full-Text Searching, however it might be an idea to read about it in BOL.
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November 12, 2004 at 1:49 am
I've found that using string functions in WHERE clauses has a higher performance penalty than using LIKE with wildcards.
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