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Databases SQL Basics Finding the Data You Want Finding Data that Matches a Pattern

Stacy Villibord
Stacy Villibord
2,017 Points
Posted by Stacy Villibord
Stacy Villibord
2,017 Points

Challange Task

In the e-commerce database we have a products table. The columns are id, name, description and price.

Find all the products where the pattern 't-shirt' can be found anywhere in the product name.

This is the code I used. Please correct. SELECT * FROM products WHERE id, name, description, price LIKE 't-shirt';

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,272 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,272 Points

You're getting close, but:

  • you can only test one column at a time with a comparison
  • but you only need to test the name
  • to check for a string "anywhere in" a field, surround the string with wildcard characters
Stacy Villibord
Stacy Villibord
2,017 Points
Stacy Villibord
Stacy Villibord
2,017 Points

Thanks Steven. I didn't realize the statement said 'anywhere IN THE PRODUCT NAME'

Jordan young
PLUS
Jordan young
Courses Plus Student 5,277 Points
Jordan young
Jordan young
Courses Plus Student 5,277 Points

Thanks Steven, this solved it for me too. However I assumed that the description column had t-shirt in their somewhere, so I kept trying to sandwich it in where it didn't belong.