Question

error:

[token line number = 1,token line offset = 15,token in error = %]

my code:

 SqlCeCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand();
 cmd.Connection = con;
 cmd.CommandText = "select emails from contacts where name like %@name";
 cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@name", name);
 SqlCeDataReader data = cmd.ExecuteReader();
 //.. 

I believe it is because the @name in query.
I tried too: select emails from contacts where name like '%@name'

how I fix it? Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to hide % from SQL parser, because it is part of the string literal:

SqlCeCommand cmd = con.CreateCommand();
cmd.Connection = con;
cmd.CommandText = "select emails from contacts where name like @name";
cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@name", "%"+name);
SqlCeDataReader data = cmd.ExecuteReader();