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Posted by: Roy Wood
Date: March 16, 2009 11:18AM

Ok, i have a problem I can't work out but i'll try to present it simply here.
Assume the table "Names".

FirstName, SecondName
Robert Smith
John Jones
Richard Robertson
Mike Richardson
Ian Stevenson

I need to write a query where by it selects all records where the First Name appears as part of any second name. the output should be

Robert Smith
Richard Robertson

Now, I know I can do
SELECT FirstName, LastName
FROM Names
WHERE LastName LIKE '%Richard%';

This will find all records where Richard appears as part of a last name. But I want it to work for any first name not just a specific one. i basicly need the last line to be something int he order of
WHERE LastName LIKE '%FirstName%';
only a version that works...

any ideas? this is driving me nuts...



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/16/2009 11:20AM by Roy Wood.

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