Question

I have a field with the following content in a record in my SQL Server database:

salsaaften

It means “salsa evening” in danish for those interested 🙂

When I do like this I am not able to find the record:

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE field_name LIKE ‘%salsa%’

However, when I do this, I find the record perfectly fine:

SELECT * FROM table_name WHERE field_name LIKE ‘%sals%’

The same thing happens with “aften” and “ften”. No results when searched for “aften”, but a perfect match when searched for “ften”.

It looks like it’s the “aa” that are confusing the database.. But why? And how to fix?

Thanks in advance 🙂

Answer 1

The sequence “aa” in some collations is treated as a single character. You might want to check to make sure the collation is the one you want.