LIKE, NOT LIKE
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The LIKE and NOT LIKE operators are useful for matching patterns containing simple wildcards.
The % character appearing in a pattern matches any string and the _ character matches a single character.
CREATE TABLE like_s (b int, t varchar(20));INSERT INTO like_s VALUES(0, 'red'), (1, 'blue');
SELECT * FROM like_s WHERE t LIKE 'r_d';
+------+------+
| b | t |
+------+------+
| 0 | red |
+------+------+SELECT * FROM like_s WHERE t NOT LIKE 'r%';
+------+------+
| b | t |
+------+------+
| 1 | blue |
+------+------+You can use the backslash character \ as an escape character with a LIKE operator so that SingleStore interprets the wildcard character as a literal character.
SELECT "foo_" LIKE "foo\_";
+---------------------+
| "foo_" LIKE "foo\_" |
+---------------------+
| 1 |
+---------------------+Caution
Implicit Collation
When character_ is set to utf8, string literals with characters using 4-byte encoding are implicitly assigned binary collation and processed as a sequence of bytes rather than characters.utf8mb4 character set.
For more information, refer to Implicit Collation in Special Cases.
Last modified: February 28, 2023