When using the wildcard %, you need to use the Like operator. The = operator will not work.

>Hi Mark,
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>In yor SQL-SELECT statement, you could set up the WHERE clause like this:
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>WHERE table.category LIKE ?lcCategory
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>Then when you want to include all categories do the following:
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>lcCategory = '%'
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>I am assuming by your variable notation that lcCategory is a charactor data type.
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>HTH