hi,

How to search a word in the sqltable?.ie suppose the field name has data type nvarchar(200). From there i enter the persional address of that persion. now i want to know the information whoes are coming from particular city?. The city value can enter in the address field. how we can make search?...

with regards,
ks.kumar

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You can use LIKE:

.... WHERE col LIKE '%London%'

but this type of search is costly.

If you need to do this type of search then I suggest you separate the
address with a different column for each element: building, street, city,
state/region, postal code, country, etc. This is much easier and more
efficient to search.

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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