Question

I have a table that has a column named ‘name’.

Example:

ID   Name       Other      Field
1    that's      x           y
2    o-k         x           y

I want to be able to perform something like:

Select * FROM table WHERE Name like %thats%

And have the row with ID 1 as result, or execute:

 Select * FROM table WHERE Name like %ok%

and have the row with ID 2 as result.

So far I only managed to execute:

SELECT *, REPLACE( Name , '.', '' ) AS Name FROM table

That one returns the whole table with the points replaced for the Name column.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Answer 1

You can clean up the Name string in the WHERE clause:

SELECT * FROM table
 WHERE REPLACE(
           REPLACE( Name, "-", "" ), "'", ""
       ) LIKE "%ok%"