>Is it possible to use the $ operator in an SQL statement? I would like to create an SQL to select records where a certain character string is contained anywhere within one of the character fields of my table.
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>If it's not possible to use the $ operator in SQL, is there another way to do it?
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>Thanks.

It depends on your back-end. In VFP you can use $, in SQL Server you can use LIKE operator (and you can use it for VFP too). I guess you would better be using LIKE operator if you want your code to be SQL Server compatible.