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LIKE operator and percent mark (%) syntax in comparison queries

I operate with 2 tables: tbLocations and tbDepartments. Both have a column
named Town.

tbLocations.Tow n looks like long unique list of different towns world wide:

Copenhagen

Madrid

Roma

Oslo

Kiev

Toronto

Stockholm

Moscow

so on

tbDepartments.T own looks like this:

Madrid Kiev

Roma Madrid Oslo

Madrid

Kiev

I need to create a query, which uniquely extracts Towns from
tbLocations.Tow n or from tbDepartments.T own that only exist in
tbDepartments.T own. Something like this:

Madrid

Kiev

Roma

Oslo

I have composed a query which partially solves problem:

"SELECT tbLocations.Tow n FROM tbLocations, tbDepartments WHERE
(tbLocations.To wn LIKE tbDepartments.T own)"

Unfortunately it extracts only single word records, like this:

Madrid

Kiev

Despite my attempts to use some combinations of wildcards, percent mark (%)
and variations of upper commas after LIKE operator I couldn't get satisfied
results.

Platform: ASP; DB engine: MySQL

Any help will be greatly appreciated

Regards / Vlad
Jul 20 '05 #1
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