Re: Syntax of LIKE in PreparedStatement

Mihai

just set the prepared statement to

"select * from table where name like ?"

and then do a setString(1,"%Smith%")

Dave
On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 16:49, Mihai Gheorghiu wrote:
> When I need to translate a PostgreSQL query such as:
> SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE name = 'Smith';
> into a PreparedStatement, I use something such as:
> sql = con.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE name = ?");
> sql.setString(1, myVariable);
>
> How do I translate
> SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE name LIKE '%Smith%';
> I'm not sure what happens to ' and %.
>
> Thank you all.
>
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