Question

I need help in returning values in a query. Consider my example below where the values in Column A are linked to Column B:

Column A             Column B
---------            ---------
45008                AQZ45008D
45008                ABC12345
45007                45007AX
45007                11652019
45007                JMD45007

All I need is to return rows where values in Column A are found somewhere in Column B. So in this example, rows 1, 3, and 5 would need to be returned.

I hope this was a clear example. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

You can try:

SELECT *
FROM Table
WHERE ColumnB LIKE '%' + ColumnA + '%' 

I am assuming that these two columns are varchar. Otherwise you may need to CAST them.