Dan Conley » Databases http://www.danconley.net He's just zis guy, you know? Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:05:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Hangin’ out with SQL*Plus http://www.danconley.net/2007/04/hangin-out-with-sqlplus/ http://www.danconley.net/2007/04/hangin-out-with-sqlplus/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:57:54 +0000 Dan http://www.danconley.net/index.php/2007/04/06/hangin-out-with-sqlplus/ As I was messing around with Oracle at work this week, I contemplated the “like” syntax. I’ve used it a fair amount (mostly when I’m lazy and don’t feel like typing everything out).

Brief explanation for the SQL illiterate: you can use % as a wildcard in a query, so

SELECT * from thesaurus_terms where term like ‘C%’;

will match all the words starting with C.

But come on: it’s just such a relaxed way of getting data. “Give me all the data that, like, starts with C. Or something. Whenever’s good for you.”

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