Question

I have fighting to get a IN parameter to work inside of a LIKE statement now for hours! I am using a CachedRowSet, which I understand should follow the same rules as a PreparedStatement.
Here is the basic query:

CachedRowSet cache; String sql = 'SELECT x ' +                 'FROM   Y ' +              'WHERE z LIKE '?__''   cache.setCommand(sql); cache.setString(1, 'someString'); 

someString is a known id but the database( by the way is PostgreSQL) entry has a unknown 2 char suffix.

Answer 1

Parameter placeholders inside quotes are ignored. They’re interpreted as a literal ‘?’. If you use a parameter, you must put the placeholder outside quotes in the SQL expression.

But LIKE can be compared to any string or any expression that produces a string. For example:

SELECT x FROM y WHERE z LIKE (? || '__') 

Now you could supply ‘someString’ for the parameter, and then it will be concatenated with the constant string '__'.