Hi Caroline,

Try this:

select * from Exhibit where ( not empty(cWorkTitle) ) and ( lower(cWorkTitle)="te" )

>Hi all,
>
>Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong with this select statement.
>

>Select * from Exhibit where Lower(cWorkTitle)="te"
>

>This correctly gets all the exhibits with a cWorkTitle starting with "te" but it also get any records that have a blank cWorkTitle, why should that be?
>
>Thanks in anticipation.
>
>UPDATED:
>cWorkTitle is a Memo field is that significant?