Question

I am trying to create a mySQL statement that will select all records that begin with a particular letter.

For example, select all product names that being with letter ‘A’.

This is what I would like the results set to be like:

result[0] = "Awesome Bracelets";
result[1] = "Abalone Earrings";
result[2] = "Aloe Gel";
result[3] = "Amscot Figure";

I would not want the following result to be included:

result[3] = "Basic Ashtray";

This is what I tried, though it seems to return mixed results where some of the prod_name records do not have any words that start with an ‘A’:

"SELECT * FROM products WHERE prod_name LIKE '%A'"

I appreciate any help with this.

Answer 1

You are almost right

"SELECT * FROM products WHERE prod_name LIKE 'A%'"