Question

I have a VERY basic database that i need to return certain results for.

The table i’m searching is called Judge and it contains the columns:

Judge_id, Name, Suburb

In my select statement I need to return the results of everyone who lives in Adelaide and Sydney.

So I use:

SELECT *
FROM judge
WHERE Suburb LIKE ('Adelaide' 'Sydney');

but this returns no results. Also tried:

SELECT *
FROM judge
WHERE Suburb = 'Adelaide' 'Sydney'

Still no results.

If I only search for just Adelaide however:

SELECT *
FROM judge
WHERE Suburb = 'Adelaide'

I get ONE result. However there are multiple matches, and the result that is returned in the last one on the table (if that has anything to do with it).

If I do:

SELECT *
FROM judge
WHERE Suburb LIKE '%Adelaide%'

I get both matches. But if i leave the % signs out, I only get the one match again.

If i do a search for any of the “Name”s of the people in the table, i can get matches back for any of them fine. So why am i having trouble getting a match for Suburb?
Thanks for any help

EDIT:

Table looks like:

CREATE TABLE JUDGE (
   Judge_id    INT     NOT NULL,
   Name        VARCHAR(25),
   Address     VARCHAR(25),
   PRIMARY KEY (Judge_id)
);

and data:

1  Smith      Melbourne
2  Green      Cootamundra
3  Gates      Dunkeld
4  Smith      Sydney
5  Russell    Adlaide
6  Schofield  Adelaide

Answer 1

I agree with Ravi’s suggestion – but if you really do want to use “LIKE” then use:

SELECT * FROM judge WHERE Suburb LIKE 'Adelade%' or Suburb LIKE 'Sydney%';

Only of any use if there are suffixes to that field data though.