I'm having an issue in searching last name in full name. It is working with %% but I don't what to use it because all has 'A' are showing. Is there any alternative way on search last name? For example I have a full name John Doe and I only searched Doe, how to get the result even if I searched the last name?
SELECT * FROM Customers where CustomerName LIKE '%Doe%' - this is working
Select * from table_name where Column_Name Like "%last_name"
that will select only full names ends by last_name
Here, I am shown you. Please, try this both of one.
SELECT FullName FROM dbo.TableA where FullName LIKE '%Choksi%'
SELECT SUBSTRING(FullName, CHARINDEX(' ', FullName) + 1, LEN(FullName)) AS [Last Name]
from dbo.TableA
where FullName like '%Choksi%'
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My table name is student and column name is FullName.
Can anyone help with this question? I have tried:
select FullName from student where fullName like "e"
But this is returning 0 rows.
If you want students that contain at leas one 'e', then:
select fullname
from student
where fullname like '%e%'
Note the use of the wildcard character (%) around the e, which searches for the character anywhere in the string.
But if you really mean students that contain a single e (not more, not less), then you need to filter out names that contain more than one. For this, you can do:
select fullname
from student
where fullname like '%e%' and fullname not like '%e%e%'
You could also use replace() and char_length():
select fullname
from student
where char_length(replace(fullname, 'e', '')) = char_length(fullname) - 1
You can use a regular expression:
select fullname
from student
where fullname regexp '^[^e]*e[^e]*$'
So the search would be like 'Ozzie Smith'
First table has (username, fname, lname) = osmith, ozzie, smith
Second table has (username, team) = osmith, cardinals
I need to concat the first and last name columns from the first table join it by username on the second table and return the team name.
I have been trying and trying...brain melted. I need your help!
Thanks!
Since it's MySQL, you need to use CONCAT, not the + sign. I also added a LOWER() function to avoid capital letter mismatch problem :
select team
from table1
join table2 on table2.username = table1.username
where lower(concat(fname,' ',lname)) like lower('%Ozzie Smith%')
You're probably doing something like
WHERE fname LIKE '%Ozzie Smith%'
which will not work. fname will contain only Ozzie, and will never match against Ozzie Smith. It would also not match if the user enters Smith, Ozzie, or any other dual-name variant. You'll have to preprocess the search terms and do something like
WHERE (fname LIKE '%Ozzie%') or (fname LIKE '%Smith%')
OR (lname LIKE '%ozzie%') or (lname LIKE %Smith%')
This will get VERY painful as the number of search terms and fields being search goes up. You'd be better off using a FULLTEXT index, where it'll be a simple matter of
WHERE MATCH(fname, lname) AGAINST ('Ozzie Smith')
Why doesn't this work?
select
lname + ', ' + fname as playerName
, team as teamName
from table1
join table2 on table2.username = table1.username
Update:
where (fname + ' ' + lname) like '%Ozzie Smith%'
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE Firstname LIKE 'George'
The problem is that i have more than 1 rows in the table with tha name Geoge and the result of the query shows only one row
You will want to include the wildcard % character to include the rows the have George present in the name:
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE Firstname LIKE '%George%';
If George will always appear at the beginning, then you can include the wildcard on the end:
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE Firstname LIKE 'George%';
you need to add a wildcard character % to match any value that contains george
SELECT *
FROM customers
WHERE Firstname LIKE '%George%'
MySQL LIKE Operator
the statement
WHERE Firstname LIKE 'George'
is equivalent with
WHERE Firstname = 'George'
that is why you are only getting one record which firstname is george.
UPDATE 1
SQLFiddle Demo
try
LOWER(Firstname) LIKE '%george%'
handles partial values and avoids case sensietivity issues.
Consider I am having tow fields in my table
field_profile_first_name_value field_profile_last_name_value
Victor Brecher
Abhi Jass
select field_profile_first_name_value, field_profile_last_name_value
from content_type_profile where field_profile_first_name_value LIKE '%Victor Bre%' OR
field_profile_last_name_value LIKE '%Victor Bre%'
I am having a auto complete text box.
When i enter the keyword as victor it will fetch the result. But if i give the first name and last name in the same time it will not produce the result.
That is if i give the keyword as Victor Brecher it will not produce the result.
How can i make to get the result if i enter first name and last name ?
How can i make it ?
Try :
select * from contracts
where lower(concat_ws(' ', field_profile_first_name_value, field_profile_last_name_value))
like lower('%Victor Bre%')
Well, even you don't need to use lower too. just use it simply.
select * from contracts where concat_ws(' ', field_profile_first_name_value,field_profile_last_name_value)
like '%Victor Bre%'
I would make use of soundex.
select * from contracts where SOUNDEX(concat_ws(' ', field_profile_first_name_value,field_profile_last_name_value)) = SOUNDEX('Victor Bre');
I suggest to use this code, so the search works also if the search input is the lastname before the name
SELECT
*
FROM
contracts
WHERE
CONCAT(firstname, ' ', lastname)) LIKE 'Victor Bre%'
OR CONCAT(lastname, ' ', firstname)) LIKE 'Victor Bre%';
Moreover, I tested this sql code with and without LOWER(), in mysql 5.7+ the search already do that.
In my table I store first name in the fName column and last name in the lName column, now I need to search them with a query, but I don't know the SQL!
example
lName | fName
-----------------
Tendulkar| Sachin
Ganguly | Sourav
Khan | Zaheer
Dhoni | Mahendra Singh
The user should get MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI if he searches for Mahendra Dhoni!
select concat(fName,' ',lName) fullname
from tbl
where concat(' ',fName,' ',lName,' ') like '% Mahendra %'
and concat(' ',fName,' ',lName,' ') like '% dhoni %'
This will most certainly put to rest any hopes of a well performing query
A variation on the theme
select concat(fName,' ',lName) fullname
from tbl
where (concat(fName,' ',lName) like '%Mahendra%dhoni%'
or concat(lName,' ',fName) like '%Mahendra%dhoni%')
The 2nd version doesn't care about full part matching, e.g. dhoni will match madhonie
Both of these queries find the name correctly. Note that there are % before and after the name to match, as well as % for every space in the name.
create table tbl (fname varchar(100), lname varchar(100));
insert tbl select 'Mahendra singh', 'dhoni';
select concat(fName,' ',lName) fullname
from tbl
where (concat(fName,' ',lName) like '%Mahendra%dhoni%'
or concat(lName,' ',fName) like '%Mahendra%dhoni%');
select concat(fName,' ',lName) fullname
from tbl
where (concat(fName,' ',lName) like '%dhoni%Mahendra%'
or concat(lName,' ',fName) like '%dhoni%Mahendra%');
You are not clear on the nature of the search inputs and specifically the level of flexibility. First, is the user given two boxes for first and last name or only a single search box? If the former, then the fast solution would be:
Select concat( fname, ' ', lname)
From MyTable
Where lname Like 'dhoni%'
And fname Like 'mahendra%'
The above query only searches for where the first part of the column value begins with the search values. However, if the user can type anything into a single search box, that is harder. If it is presumed that the user has typed <name part> space <name part>, then one solution that solves that specific problem where the user enters only two words is to split on the space and run something like:
Select concat( fname, ' ', lname)
From MyTable
Where ( lname Like '%dhoni%' And fname Like '%mahendra%' )
Or ( lname Like '%mahendra%' And fname Like '%dhoni%' )
However, that query will perform awful because it forces the system to scan the entire table each time it is executed. Further, what happens when they enter a three part name like Mahendra Singh Dhoni in your search? There are simply too many edge cases for this to be workable IMO. The right solution is to get a full text indexing engine like Lucene that will create a index across both columns and rank the quality of the match.
Lucene
I'm guessing your inputs are from two different textboxes, and hopefully you are using a stored procedure :).
declare #input1 nvarchar(50)
declare #input2 nvarchar(5)
set #input1 = 'Mahendra'
set #input2 = 'Dhoni'
select upper((fname + ' ' + lname)) as 'FullName'
from customer
where fname like '%' + #input1 + '%'
or fname like '%' + #input1 + '%'
or lname like '%' + #input2 + '%'
or lname like '%' + #input2 + '%'
If you have 1 input box, you will want to split your search term by the space and loop over your search terms against fname and lname columns using the like '%term%' syntax.
Another way would be to make a stored procedure that added fname and lname together and did a soundex match. this is where you match your search term against the sound of the word in the table. Google it should help, its pretty easy.
I am assuming you have 2 inputs and you are only getting part of the first name. If this is true then the following would work:
select concat(fname, ' ', lname)
from yourtable
where substring(fname, 1, 5) = 'mahen'
and lname = 'dhoni'
The advantage of this approach is that it will use the indexes on the column(s) or a combined index whereas the like queries always do full table scans.
You might also check out a search engine like sphinx or solr when you truly do not know the data you are receiving as those are far more flexible that database queries.