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Subject:Re: HELP ASAP: SQL wild card question From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:02:15 -0400
"Cook, Jenise" wrote:
>
> _Bottom line:_
> Do you recognize the asterisk (*) as "the" universal wild card in Web and
> application search engines?
>
> _My Story:_
> We have a new Web application (internal users) with fairly dynamic search
> capabilities. Today, we just found out from one of the programmers that the
> % symbol is the SQL search wild card for our application. We found out
> because a user tried to search on company names by entering [ *& Sons ], and
> it didn't work. The programmer says the search should be [ %& Sons ].
>
> The Program Manager is asking me to communicate the % wild card entry to our
> users. (Although internal, our users number several hundred, and are
> scattered across the U.S.) I'm about to send an e-mail requesting that they
> change the % wild card to an asterisk.
>
> I haven't taken a SQL class, yet. Before I send the e-mail and end up
> looking like a dummy, is it possible to change the % to an *? Feel free to
> reply directly to me.
>
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