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Asked: 2026-06-14T00:59:29+00:00

In my database I have a table PRODUCT with a VARCHAR(255) column PRODNAME. In

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In my database I have a table PRODUCT with a VARCHAR(255) column PRODNAME. In that column I store all my product names.

Now I’ve got to implement a simple search engine looking at that column. I’d like to use the LIKE statements as an exact match == over strings would be too restrictive but I want to match only prefixes inside the text of column PRODNAME. How to do so? Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the wildcard (percent sign), ie.

    SELECT * FROM PRODUCT WHERE PRODNAME LIKE 'prefix%'

    To search for all substrings, use:

    SELECT * FROM PRODUCT WHERE PRODNAME LIKE '%substring%'

    Or suffixes:

    SELECT * FROM PRODUCT WHERE PRODNAME LIKE '%suffix'

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