| From: | Rob Kirkbride <rob(at)rkcomputing(dot)co(dot)uk> |
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| To: | ij(at)perlpimp(dot)dk |
| Cc: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: 'select where' using multiple columns. |
| Date: | 2005-08-05 10:49:18 |
| Message-ID: | 42F3442E.9030906@rkcomputing.co.uk |
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Ian Johannesen wrote:
>Hi.
>
>Rob Kirkbride wrote:
>
>
>>I've got a persons name which is being stored say in 3 columns :-
>>Title, Forename_1, Forename_2, Surname. I want to allow a search say for
>>'John Smith'. Problem is I can't just break it up into forename and
>>surname because I won't also know.
>>Is there a way to do something like a
>>'select * where forename_1,forename_2,surname like '%String%' ??
>>
>>
>>
>SELECT * FROM table WHERE forename_1 || ' ' || forename_2 || ' ' ||
>surname LIKE '%String%';
>
>
>
Thanks for the quick response. I've tried that and it works fine. Thanks
a lot and thanks to Daq and Helder.
Rob
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