Question

I have a table called records which has several columns, one of which is fromphone which represents a phone number. I can run this query to see the different phone numbers:

SELECT DISTINCT fromphone
FROM records

and it shows the different phone numbers.

However, if I run this query:

SELECT *
FROM records
WHERE fromphone = '123-456-7890'

where fromphone is a phone number in the table, no results get returned.

Answer 1

Are you sure there is a record with phone number as 123-456-7890 in the database table? There maybe some leading or trailing space in it.

Try to use LIKE and %% operator, do it like this:

SELECT *
FROM records
WHERE fromphone LIKE '%123-456-7890%'