Question

I have a table tb1(item, status), status is varchar(50). For instance,

item    status
item1   abc
item2   a
item3   ed
item4   ca

I need to write a query to select those items whose status has a value that is any of (‘b’, ‘d’, ‘f’). So the result should be item1, item3. How do I write a query to split the column status?

Answer 1

select item, status
from tb1
where status like '%[bdf]%'

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