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Asked: 2026-05-29T08:10:10+00:00

I have this query: SELECT DISTINCT phone, department FROM `users` WHERE ((SUBSTRING(phone,1,3) = ‘399’)

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I have this query:

SELECT DISTINCT phone, department 
FROM `users` 
WHERE ((SUBSTRING(phone,1,3) = '399') 
AND (SUBSTRING(phone,5,4) BETWEEN '3400' AND '3499')
OR  (SUBSTRING(phone,1,3) = '244') 
AND (SUBSTRING (phone,5,4) BETWEEN '5400' AND '5499'))

that gives me this error:

#1630 - FUNCTION Database.SUBSTRING does not exist. Check the 'Function Name Parsing and Resolution' section in the Reference Manual

The query works if I only use this:

SELECT DISTINCT phone, department 
FROM `users` 
WHERE (SUBSTRING(phone,1,3) = '399') 
AND (SUBSTRING(phone,5,4) BETWEEN '3400' AND '3499')
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  1. Editorial Team

    According to the MySQL Function Name Parsing there must be no whitespace between the built-In function name (‘SUBSTRING’ in your case) and the following “(” parenthesis character. It’s a default parser behaviour to distinguish whether names of the built-in functions are being used as function calls or as identifiers in nonexpression context.

    So if you remove the white space after ‘SUBSTRING’ function call in the last line, your query will work fine:

    SELECT DISTINCT phone, department 
FROM `users` 
WHERE ((SUBSTRING(phone,1,3) = '399') 
AND (SUBSTRING(phone,5,4) BETWEEN '3400' AND '3499')
OR  (SUBSTRING(phone,1,3) = '244') 
AND (SUBSTRING(phone,5,4) BETWEEN '5400' AND '5499'))
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