Two responses you could try (gleaned over the years from various sites), which seem to work OK:

1 - If they ask you what you are looking for, say something to...

I wonder if the confusion were over an individual named "Chadwick Worthington III" if he would have spent the week in jail.

It's one thing to have the data falsely flagged...

Run SQL Profiler and see what command is actually being executed (or attempted) on the Server.  It's easy enough to mishandle a quote, comma, null, etc.

If you mean "better way" in the sense of easier to read/maintain, then I would just have a line before the select statement that said

SET @var = '%' + Coalesce(@var,'') + '%'

and do...

Two additional commenting thoughts - probably more applicable to "front-end" code, but also somewhat to TSQL:

1) If coding to a design spec, reference the section of the spec explicitly.  Instead...

Thanks for the examples.  In case anyone is working through them, the case statement has a typo with a '2002' replaced with a '2001'

You may have to reset the log pointer to the beginning by issuing dummy commands (e.g., update x to x) to the database.  This was an issue with 7.0 but...

The internet is here.

The good news:  a wealth of information is at your fingertips.

The bad news:  anyone with a keyboard can fancy himself a "writer."

This article starts out legitimately enough...

Don't thank me yet - I noticed a typo in the first attempt - this is more like it ...for now 😉

select * from clients c

where caseid not in

(select...

I tried the above, but it seemed to return more than you wanted.

I think this will work - the tricky part is rule #3, which is the "exists" clause (the...

When you design inputs for phone number, do you use 4 textboxes and 4 corresponding fields in the database (one each for area code, exchange, 4-digit piece, and extension. ..assuming...

as always in sw development (if you dare to include working with access in this category 😉 ), the answer is "it depends" - there are 3 methods i might...