LIKE and NOT LIKE
The LIKE
and NOT LIKE
operators can be used to find records that either match or do not match a specified pattern, respectively. They can be coupled with the wildcards %
and _
. The %
will match zero or many characters, and _
will match a single character.
This is useful when you want to filter text, but not to an exact word.
Do the following exercises to gain some practice with these keywords.
This exercise is part of the course
Intermediate SQL
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
-- Select the names that start with B
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