>What's the best SELECT technique to use to grab all of the O'Brian's from the last name field. They could be stored as
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>O'Brian
>OBrian
>O Brian
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>We need to be able to allow the user to enter "Ob" in a text box and get people who's last name starts with "Ob", including all the variations on O'Brian. The same will apply with McDonald, Mc Donald...you get the picture.
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>Any ideas??

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Jim,

I don't have a perfect answer, but using WHERE LastName LIKE 'o[ '']b%' would find the first and third version of O'Brian, but not the second.

Hope this helps!