BETWEEN A AND F

Hi All.
Intervals on varchar fields.
I just want to pick all customers from my DB who has Customernames starting
with A, b, c, d, e, f. Some kind of BETWEEN A AND F. (Starting letters).
Any ideas.
Even better. I have the query ... WHERE CustomerName LIKE @.CustomerName. Is
there any combinations of %, <, > or any other characters that can give me
all customers between A and F. (E.g...WHERE CustomerName LIKE 'A-F' or
something...
Thanx all
GeirLook up wildcards in the books online; you basically want a variation
of :
WHERE CustomerName Like '[a-f]%'
Stu|||Just what I was looking for. Thanx a lot!
Still learning.....:-)
-gh
"Stu" <stuart.ainsworth@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1126525507.534946.152760@.f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
> Look up wildcards in the books online; you basically want a variation
> of :
> WHERE CustomerName Like '[a-f]%'
> Stu
>|||Been there :)
Books Online will be your best friend if you're trying to learn the
distinctive characteristics of SQL Server. Of course, if means you
have to know what you're looking for because it's an encyclopedia, not
a textbook.
Stu

Best way to search for all records (Using a Case Statement in a SP)

I have a form with a dropdown or combo box, the user can select <All>
or pick a user name. If they pick a user name my where clause works
fine, buts what's the best way to write "Select All" if they choose
the <All
This is what I have so far, but I don't think I should be using the
LIKE operator.

WHERE tblCase.qarep LIKE CASE @.myqarep WHEN '<All>' THEN '%' ELSE
@.myqarep END
and tblOffice.officecode LIKE CASE @.myoffice WHEN -1 THEN '%' ELSE
@.myoffice END

thanks for your help!!On 13 Sep 2004 10:47:21 -0700, PaulMac wrote:

>I have a form with a dropdown or combo box, the user can select <All>
>or pick a user name. If they pick a user name my where clause works
>fine, buts what's the best way to write "Select All" if they choose
>the <All>
>This is what I have so far, but I don't think I should be using the
>LIKE operator.
>WHERE tblCase.qarep LIKE CASE @.myqarep WHEN '<All>' THEN '%' ELSE
>@.myqarep END
> and tblOffice.officecode LIKE CASE @.myoffice WHEN -1 THEN '%' ELSE
> @.myoffice END
>thanks for your help!!

Hi Paul,

You could use this:

WHERE tblCase.qarep = CASE @.myqrep
WHEN '<All>' THEN tblCase.qarep
ELSE @.myqrep
END
AND tblOffice.officecode = CASE @.myoffice
WHEN -1 THEN tblOffice.officecode
ELSE @.myoffice
END

An alternative that's a bit more work to create but that will probably
perform better is to write different versions of the query; use IF to
select which search arguments are set to All and which are set to a value
and then execute the correct version of the query.

Best, Hugo
--

(Remove _NO_ and _SPAM_ to get my e-mail address)|||PaulMac (paulmac106@.hotmail.com) writes:
> I have a form with a dropdown or combo box, the user can select <All>
> or pick a user name. If they pick a user name my where clause works
> fine, buts what's the best way to write "Select All" if they choose
> the <All>
> This is what I have so far, but I don't think I should be using the
> LIKE operator.
> WHERE tblCase.qarep LIKE CASE @.myqarep WHEN '<All>' THEN '%' ELSE
> @.myqarep END
> and tblOffice.officecode LIKE CASE @.myoffice WHEN -1 THEN '%' ELSE
> @.myoffice END

Since it's a combo, LIKE appears to be a bit of overkill. The normal
procedure is to pass NULL when you want all:

WHERE (qarep = @.myqarep OR @.myqarep IS NULL)
AND (officecode = @.myoffice OR @.myoffice IS NULL)

But of course this works too:

WHERE (qarep = @.myqarep OR @.myqarep = '<All>')
AND (officecode = @.myoffice OR @.myoffice = -1)

At least as long as you don't localize the string...

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp|||I will not suggest putting a CASE command in the WHERE clause, you may
just want to use "if" control statement to separate two code blocks
which will be more efficient at database level.

IF Boolean_expression
{ sql_statement | statement_block }
[
ELSE
{ sql_statement | statement_block } ]

paulmac106@.hotmail.com (PaulMac) wrote in message news:<1ee8a467.0409130947.4f608eba@.posting.google.com>...
> I have a form with a dropdown or combo box, the user can select <All>
> or pick a user name. If they pick a user name my where clause works
> fine, buts what's the best way to write "Select All" if they choose
> the <All>
> This is what I have so far, but I don't think I should be using the
> LIKE operator.
> WHERE tblCase.qarep LIKE CASE @.myqarep WHEN '<All>' THEN '%' ELSE
> @.myqarep END
> and tblOffice.officecode LIKE CASE @.myoffice WHEN -1 THEN '%' ELSE
> @.myoffice END
> thanks for your help!!|||Hi Hugo

That worked perfectly...Thank You!!

Hugo Kornelis <hugo@.pe_NO_rFact.in_SPAM_fo> wrote in message news:<3e6ck0dsnb7m8pvq95ps7ceu2nu0lj353t@.4ax.com>...
> On 13 Sep 2004 10:47:21 -0700, PaulMac wrote:
> >I have a form with a dropdown or combo box, the user can select <All>
> >or pick a user name. If they pick a user name my where clause works
> >fine, buts what's the best way to write "Select All" if they choose
> >the <All>
> >This is what I have so far, but I don't think I should be using the
> >LIKE operator.
> >WHERE tblCase.qarep LIKE CASE @.myqarep WHEN '<All>' THEN '%' ELSE
> >@.myqarep END
> > and tblOffice.officecode LIKE CASE @.myoffice WHEN -1 THEN '%' ELSE
> > @.myoffice END
> >thanks for your help!!
> Hi Paul,
> You could use this:
> WHERE tblCase.qarep = CASE @.myqrep
> WHEN '<All>' THEN tblCase.qarep
> ELSE @.myqrep
> END
> AND tblOffice.officecode = CASE @.myoffice
> WHEN -1 THEN tblOffice.officecode
> ELSE @.myoffice
> END
> An alternative that's a bit more work to create but that will probably
> perform better is to write different versions of the query; use IF to
> select which search arguments are set to All and which are set to a value
> and then execute the correct version of the query.
> Best, Hugo