Question

This should be so simple but I must be missing something obvious.

Table:

id    name
===============
1     Allison
2     BethAnn
3     Carly
4     MaryAnn

Test Query:

SELECT id,SUBSTRING(name,5) FROM my_table;

Result:

1    son
2    Ann
3    y
4    Ann

Great. Now just get the id’s where the characters 5+ = ‘Ann’:

SELECT id FROM my_table WHERE SUBSTRING(name,5) = 'Ann';

Expected Result:

2
4

Instead I get nothing. What am I missing?

Waiting for facepalm. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your query is correct and producing correct results for me. There seems to be something other that is causing problem. Here is the screenshot…

Hope it helps…