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problem with like opeartor

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kirank
Yak Posting Veteran

58 Posts

Posted - 2010-08-16 : 06:54:57

hi if i run the 1st query it return 1 records
but if i run 2nd it shows 0 records, there is only one change i have done
simple replacing the string with the actual database columns
but still its not working i thing some prb with like ,
plz can u help me to identify it

thank you,


select * from Tbl E 
 WHERE LEN(LTRIM(RTRIM(E.[Brs]))) > 0  
    AND LTRIM(RTRIM(E.[brs])) not like 
  (SELECT top 1 Vctb  FROM TblB  WHERE Vcb like  'ABCD%' AND       
   INTBID IN (SELECT TOP 1 INTBID FROM TblB WHERE Vcb like  'TEST TEST TEST%')) +'%'  


select * from Tbl E 
 WHERE LEN(LTRIM(RTRIM(E.[Brs]))) > 0 AND       
     LTRIM(RTRIM(E.[brs])) not like 
  (SELECT top 1 Vctb  FROM TblB  WHERE Vcb like  Ltrim(E.[brs])+'%' AND       
   INTBID IN (SELECT TOP 1 INTBID FROM TblB WHERE Vcb like Ltrim(rtrim(E.[brs])) +'%')) +'%'

vaibhavktiwari83
Aged Yak Warrior

843 Posts

Posted - 2010-08-16 : 07:12:19

Syntactically it seems there is no problem, can you post some sample data ?

Vaibhav T

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