substring matching

[anoosh]

hi all
I want to write a sotred procedure which has a parameter,called
@name.The SQL statement must return all rows where this parameter is a
subatring of a special column called FirstName.This procdeure do the
same ,but return all rows where @name is the exact matching.what
should I do?
/*
This procedure return the exact matching
*/
CREATE PROCEDURE substring
@name varchar(50)
AS
SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE (table1.firstName LIKE @name);

[Erland Sommarskog]

anoosh (pa****@gmail.com) writes:

I want to write a sotred procedure which has a parameter,called
@name.The SQL statement must return all rows where this parameter is a
subatring of a special column called FirstName.This procdeure do the
same ,but return all rows where @name is the exact matching.what
should I do?
/*
This procedure return the exact matching
*/
CREATE PROCEDURE substring
@name varchar(50)
AS
SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE (table1.firstName LIKE @name);

LIKE '%' + @name + '%'
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[Gert-Jan Strik]

Based on you narrative, the query you need is:

SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE @name LIKE '%'+table1.firstName+'%'

HTH,
Gert-Jan
anoosh wrote:

>
hi all
I want to write a sotred procedure which has a parameter,called
@name.The SQL statement must return all rows where this parameter is a
subatring of a special column called FirstName.This procdeure do the
same ,but return all rows where @name is the exact matching.what
should I do?

/*
This procedure return the exact matching
*/
CREATE PROCEDURE substring
@name varchar(50)
AS
SELECT *
FROM table1
WHERE (table1.firstName LIKE @name);