How To Use Regular Expression in Pattern Match Conditions

Q

How To Use Regular Expression in Pattern Match Conditions? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics

✍: FYIcenter.com

A

If you have a pattern that is too complex for LIKE to handle, you can use the regular expression pattern condition: REGEXP. The following tutorial exercise provides you some good examples:

SELECT 'FYICenter.com' REGEXP '.*fyi.*' FROM DUAL;
   1

SELECT 'FYICenter.com' REGEXP '.*com$' FROM DUAL;
   1

SELECT 'FYICenter.com' REGEXP '^F.*' FROM DUAL; 
   1

2007-05-11, 5251👍, 0💬

What Happens If NULL Values Are Involved in Expressions
What Happens If NULL Values Are Involved in Expressions? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics If NULL values are used in expressions, the resulting values will be NULL values. In other words: Arithmetic expressions with NULL values result NULL values. Comparison expressions with NULL values res... 2007-05-11, 5336👍, 0💬

How To Use Regular Expression in Pattern Match Conditions
How To Use Regular Expression in Pattern Match Conditions? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics If you have a pattern that is too complex for LIKE to handle, you can use the regular expression pattern condition: REGEXP. The following tutorial exercise provides you some good examples: SELECT 'FY... 2007-05-11, 5252👍, 0💬

How To Convert Character Strings to Numeric Values
How To Convert Character Strings to Numeric Values? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics You can convert character strings to numeric values by using the CAST(string AS DECIMAL) or CAST(string AS SIGNED INTEGER) function as shown in the following examples: SELECT CAST('4123.45700' AS DECIMAL) F... 2007-05-11, 5139👍, 0💬

What Happens If You No CREATE Privilege in a Database
What Happens If You No CREATE Privilege in a Database? - MySQL FAQs - Understanding SQL CREATE, ALTER and DROP Statements In order to create tables in a database, your user account must have the CREATE privilege for that database. Otherwise you will get an error as shown in the following tutorial ex... 2007-05-11, 5127👍, 0💬

What Are DDL Statements
What Are DDL Statements? - MySQL FAQs - Understanding SQL CREATE, ALTER and DROP Statements DDL (Data Definition Language) statements are statements to create and manage data objects in the database. The are 3 primary DDL statements: CREATE - Creating a new database object. ALTER - Altering the defi... 2007-05-11, 5122👍, 0💬

How To Use CASE Expression
How To Use CASE Expression? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics There are 2 ways to use the CASE expression. The first way is to return one of the predefined values based on the comparison of a given value to a list of target values. The second way is to return one of the predefined values bas... 2007-05-11, 5112👍, 0💬

How To Create a New Table
How To Create a New Table? - MySQL FAQs - Understanding SQL CREATE, ALTER and DROP Statements If you want to create a new table, you can use the "CREATE TABLE" statement. The following tutorial script shows you how to create a table called "tip": mysql> CREATE TABLE tip (id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, subj... 2007-05-11, 5021👍, 0💬

How To Get a List of All Tables in a Database
How To Get a List of All Tables in a Database? - MySQL FAQs - Understanding SQL CREATE, ALTER and DROP Statements If you want to see the table you have just created, you can use the "SHOW TABLES" command to get a list of all tables in database. The tutorial script gives you a good example: mysql> SH... 2007-05-11, 5019👍, 0💬

How To Use LIKE Conditions
How To Use LIKE Conditions? - MySQL FAQs - Introduction to SQL Basics A LIKE condition is also called pattern patch. There are 3 main rules on using LIKE condition: '_' is used in the pattern to match any one character. '%' is used in the pattern to match any zero or more characters. ESCAPE clause i... 2007-05-11, 5006👍, 0💬

All rights in the contents of this web site are reserved by the individual author. fyicenter.com does not guarantee the truthfulness, accuracy, or reliability of any contents.