>>I am creating a parameterized view. One of the parameters in this view is 'dbfname LIKE ?vp_dbfname. I thought this would allow me to have something similar to the 'contained in' operator ($). So, for example, if vp_dbfname = "A" then all dbfname's with 'A' in them would be pulled. The problem I am having is that no data is being pulled. The If I just use = instead of LIKE it works fine. I'm probably missing something.
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>The idea of 'LIKE'is to use wildcards (percent sign and underscore). E.g. if you want to retrieve all records started with "A", then vp_dbfname="A%". For records containing "A", you use construction vp_dbfname="%A%", etc.

Thanks Edward. I was just looking at this and realized that same fact. Unlike the contained in operator ($), like explicitly requires the wildchard operators. So, to make LIKE match $ in function, you would use somethign like %A%. This would return all records which contained an A. In addition, like recognizes the single character substitution using _. So, vp_dbfname = '_ZIP' would return all records that are 4 characters wide and end with 'ZIP'.

Thanks again!