You cannot do partial matching in SQL Server this way. You have to use LIKE for partial matching.
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>I am sending an select statement over to SQL Server 2005 with an in() in the where statement. I thought it would be like VFP, but am thinking I am wrong now.
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>I am trying to do parshal (sp? - not full) matching on the items in side the in.
>Do I have to do the %, or should in() work?
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>TIA,
>Beth
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