Question

I have this sql statement:

SELECT * from tBooks where BookNbr = '20111122-001'

BookNbr is defined as varchar (15), and the record does exist in the table.

I think it might have something to do with the dash, but don’t know why…

Answer 1

So it is probably a hyphen vs. en dash vs. em dash issue. (You can confirm this by pasting the displayed matching field into an ascii editor to see if a multi-byte character appears.)

SELECT * from tBooks where BookNbr like '20111122%001'

so that % ignores the specific punctuation in the midst.