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Re: LIKE operator

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From: BPMargolin
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 00:00
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Jacob,

What sort of string patterns are you searching for?

You can use the STR function or the CONVERT/CAST functions to transform an int
into a char inside your query.

Jacob <jsilberstein@eazall.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Everyone
>
> I have a SQL Server 7 table who's primary key is a column of 'int' data
> type, I use int because I want it to be an Identity field, but I would like
> to create queries that use the LIKE operator to search for string patterns,
> but I keep getting errors because the LIKE operator works only with string
> data types. If anyone knows a workaround for this I would appreciate your
> help.
>
> Thanks
> Jacob
>
>
>
>
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Date: 2000/03/23
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