Question

I have a small problem in retrieving characters using user variable in SQL
The query is as follows

DECLARE @search
SET @search='chicken'

SELECT * from Recipes where TITLE like '@search'

IS this correct? It should retrieve the recipes where Title contains the word which is given to @search.

I even tried giving

SELECT * from Recipes where TITLE IN ('+@search+')
SELECT * from Recipes where TITLE =@search
SELECT * from Recipes where TITLE =$[@search]

But none seem to work.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try this

set @search='chicken'

select * from recipes where title like '%' + @search + '%'