Question

I have a Person table with LastName and FirstName.

Consider the following record where

FirstName == ‘Pete’ and LastName == ‘Aaaa’

When I run the following select statements:

select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName like 'a%' -- 0 record returned
select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName like 'aa%' -- 1 record returned
select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName like 'aaa%' -- 0 record returned
select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName like 'aaaa%' -- 1 record returned

When I run this in SQL Fiddle – 1 record is returned for every select as it should SQL Fiddle query

Anybody have any ideas?

Answer 1

try this

select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName collate Latin1_General_CI_AS like 'a%'
select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName collate Latin1_General_CI_AS like 'aa%'
select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName collate Latin1_General_CI_AS like 'aaa%'
select * from Person where FirstName='Pete' and LastName collate Latin1_General_CI_AS like 'aaaa%'