How to: Specify Multiple Search Conditions for One Column

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How to: Specify Multiple Search Conditions for One Column like query

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SELECT title_id, title
FROM titles
WHERE (title LIKE 'Cook') AND
  (title LIKE 'Recipe')

i am using this through this link but its not working
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/3wt436fh%28v=vs.100%29.aspx[^]

Posted 21-Apr-14 19:20pm

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Peter Leow 22-Apr-14 1:30am

"it is not working" is not informative.

Bh@gyesh 22-Apr-14 1:33am

Hi,
Use 'OR' instead of 'AND' in query.

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2014-04-21T19:40:00

Of course, it did not work. You are using the LIKE without the % which is used to define wildcards (missing letters) both before and after the pattern.
Say

WHERE title LIKE '%Cook%'

means matching any title that contains "Cook" with or without any suffix and prefix. By omitting % it means exact matching "Cook" the same as

WHERE title = 'Cook'

Now, your query is asking to search for records whose title is both 'Cook' and 'Recipe', apparently, it can never exist.
Read more:
1. sql_like[^]
2. sql_wildcards[^]