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SQL statements, WHERE with a wild card
I am trying to apply some modifications to ikonboard, a perl message board script. It has a few driver modules that handle flatfile databases or mysql databases. In it are subroutines for update, select, query, etc
and update looks somewaht like this:
$db->update( TABLE => 'member_profiles',
WHERE => 'POST_FONT_COLOR < > ikonboard',
VALUES => { TEST => $iB::IN{'TEST'} },
);
IThe subroutine then takes these values and puts together an SQL statement. Now i want to update an entire column with the same value but this ikonboard subroutine does not support that and requires a WHERE feild. I am wondering now, whether there is a way to say, WHERE => is everything in the column. I tried using the operator < > but it didnt work.
Any suggestions?
and update looks somewaht like this:
$db->update( TABLE => 'member_profiles',
WHERE => 'POST_FONT_COLOR < > ikonboard',
VALUES => { TEST => $iB::IN{'TEST'} },
);
IThe subroutine then takes these values and puts together an SQL statement. Now i want to update an entire column with the same value but this ikonboard subroutine does not support that and requires a WHERE feild. I am wondering now, whether there is a way to say, WHERE => is everything in the column. I tried using the operator < > but it didnt work.
Any suggestions?
Or
WHERE => 'POST_FONT_COLOR < > string_that_will_not_be_in
In my previuos post I mean
where => 'coloumn like "%"'
or something like this.
I am not familiar with this method of generating queries (=>) but the real query generetaed to database must be something like this:
update sometable set somecoloumn="blabla" where somecolumn like "%";
Hope this help
WHERE => 'POST_FONT_COLOR < > string_that_will_not_be_in
In my previuos post I mean
where => 'coloumn like "%"'
or something like this.
I am not familiar with this method of generating queries (=>) but the real query generetaed to database must be something like this:
update sometable set somecoloumn="blabla" where somecolumn like "%";
Hope this help
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where => '%'