Question

I have an column something like:

name         value 
John kennedy 1999
Bill gates   8388383
Obama        11110

I need an query that match 1999 if I try get john or kennedy

I tried it:

  cmd.CommandText = "select value from contacts where name like @name";
  cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@name", "%" + name);

if @name is john this returns 0 colums
if ‘@name’ is kennedy this returns 1999

Answer 1

put a % on both sides of name:

cmd.Parameters.AddWithValue("@name", "%" + name + "%");