I have not tried that but I will in the morning. The @ in SQL is used to
indicate a parameter passed to the query. In PostgreSQL it seems that the :
is the same as the @ in SQL Server. I tried something like:
SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName LIKE :custfirst + '%';
And it told me that the + could not be used. Not sure the exact message but
I will check again tomorrow and see what it was and post the results.
Scott Marlowe-2 wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 6:21 PM, landsharkdaddy
> <ldodd@landsharksoftware.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a query that works on SQL Server to return customers that contain
>> the
>> string entered by the user by accepting parameters and using the LIKE
>> keyword. I would like to move this to postgreSQL but I'm just not sure
>> how
>> to get it done. This is the query
>>
>> SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName LIKE @custfirst + '%';
>>
>> This works great on SQL Server but not on postgreSQL. Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>
> Have you tried:
>
> SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE FirstName LIKE 'custfirst%';
>
> What does the @ do in sql server?
>
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