Question

I have an application that builds dynamic parameterized SQL queries. The following query returns an inner exception of ‘syntax error at or near ‘=’…

I am thinking it is in the way that I am assigning the parameter to the column name but, I’m not sure. Code follows.

SELECT TOP 50 77 AS Repository, DocID, LastFileDate, ImageCount,  LockedUserID,   DocClass, Offline, FileType, OrigFileName, C_CredCardSSN, C_CredCardName,C_CredCardDocType, C_CredCardDocDate, C_CredCardStatus   FROM D77   WHERE C_CredCardSSN   LIKE C_CredCardSSN = @sp1%   ORDER BY C_CredCardSSN,C_CredCardName 

EDIT: Thanks to everyone. All of these answers helped. =)

Answer 1

Try just

WHERE C_CredCardSSN LIKE @sp1 

or

WHERE C_CredCardSSN LIKE @sp1+'%' 

depending on why you had a ‘%’ there (thanks to Joel Coehoorn’s comment for pointing out the ‘%’ I’d missed).

Or (in response to your comment) maybe:

WHERE C_CredCardSSN LIKE ''+@sp1