Question

I have a table which contains information on places to fish. I have a column called species. its contents may be similar to:

Brown & Rainbow Trout, Pike

How do i write a statment that would show all fisheries that have ‘pike’ in the species column? something like:

SELECT species from table WHERE species='Pike'

of course this statment wont work becuase the species colomn contains more than just ‘Pike’

Any suggestions? Without creating a column for each species.

Answer 1

Try using LIKE. (% means match 0 or more characters, _ means match one character.)

SELECT species from table WHERE species LIKE '%Pike%'