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Databases

Tsung-Lin Chuang
Tsung-Lin Chuang
1,567 Points

how to union two different table and result only shows name with the letter L to Z

how to union two different table and result only shows name with the letter L to Z

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

In your WHERE clause, you can use inequality operators on string fields. For example, if compared a field named "word" using the expression "WHERE word < 'L'", you would get only words that start with letters that come before "L" in the alphabet ("A" through "K").

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Eli De Leon
Eli De Leon
Courses Plus Student 1,758 Points

Thank you, that worked. I had tried:

SELECT Name FROM Fruit WHERE Name IN ('A%','B%','C%', 'D%', 'E%', 'F%', 'G%', 'H%', 'I%', 'J%', 'K%') UNION SELECT Name FROM Vegetable WHERE Name IN ('A%','B%,'C%', 'D%', 'E%', 'F%', 'G%', 'H%', 'I%', 'J%', 'K%') ORDER BY Name;

as well as trying to use

WHERE Name BETWEEN 'A' AND 'L'

Surprisingly those didnt work.

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

You can't use wildcards with "IN", they only work with "LIKE".

Tsung-Lin Chuang
Tsung-Lin Chuang
1,567 Points

doesn't work. question: there are two table: fruit table with fruitid and name column, vegetable table with vegetableid and name column. create a list of all fruits and vegetables starting with the letters A through K.

my answer is following select name from fruit union select name from vegetable where name >= 'K'

but it doesn't work

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

But you originally asked for only names "with the letter L to Z". Check my answer again, I revised the example to fit this new criteria.