Question

I have a column with data like this “Tom Hardy” and I add a new query to search in this column like this :

SELECT  Number, Name, Business, [Tax File No], Phone
FROM            Archive
WHERE        (Name = @Name)

and it works when I entered the full name like “Tom Hardy” but I want to find results by searching just “Tom” or “Hardy”.

I also tried :

SELECT  Number, Name, Business, [Tax File No], Phone
FROM            Archive
WHERE        (Name IN (@Name))

Neither work.

Using Visual Studio 2010 with C# and SQL database connected to it.

Please help, thanks!

Answer 1

You need to add a wild card to your parameter

WHERE Name LIKE '%' + @Name + '%'

So

SELECT  Number, Name, Business, [Tax File No], Phone
FROM            Ahrcive
WHERE        (Name COLLATE UTF8_GENERAL_CI like '%' + @Name + '%')

I don’t think you can do this using the ‘in’ keyword.