Question

I have this query, and I think it talks by itself:

mysql> select id,email from members where email LIKE "[e-mail]%";
+--------+----------------------------+
| id     | email                      |
+--------+----------------------------+
| 272118 | [e-mail] | 
+--------+----------------------------+
1 row in set (0.69 sec)

mysql> select id,email from members where email = "[e-mail]";
Empty set (0.00 sec)

mysql> select id,email from members where id = 272118;
Empty set (0.00 sec)

The data exists, but it returns empty if I use other than LIKE…

Answer 1

When there is such a flagrant impossible sequence of queries, then it’s time to think about a table (or index) corruption and to run the Mysql CHECK command.

In that case, running REPAIR TABLE members QUICK did the trick.