Question

I know a bit about MySQL, but not enough to know why this query is not working.

SELECT * FROM files WHERE uploader LIKE 'value';

I have a database of files which contains uploader names. Yet, when I search for an uploader name it misses a lot of the entries, even though the name is completely identical all through.

No idea why it does this.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Sonny, you need some wildcards in that there LIKE clause.

SELECT * FROM files WHERE uploader LIKE '%value%';