Question

I’m trying to exclude selected rows based on the first letter of a column. I.e All rows that columns ‘col’ do not starts with Y, A or B.

 SELECT * 
 FROM tbl 
 WHERE col NOT LIKE 'Y%' 
   AND col NOT LIKE 'A%' 
   AND col NOT LIKE 'B%'

I’ve tried some variations such as using OR in place of AND or something like:

SELECT * 
FROM tbl 
WHERE col NOT IN ('Y%', 'A%', 'B%')

None of them give me the expected results,

THanks

Answer 1

Sorry, but I’ve found that I am using MS-Access SQL which differs from MySQL. The % wildcard doesn’t work for MS Access

It was just a mispelling issue. So the corrected version of this SQL is:

SELECT * 
FROM tbl 
WHERE col NOT LIKE 'Y*' 
AND col NOT LIKE 'A*' 
AND col NOT LIKE 'B*'

Best regards,