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                                    | ktYak Posting Veteran
 
 
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                                            |  Posted - 2014-11-04 : 15:19:07 
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                                            | I have the table with this format Q09Qv9WC8KT78QH2QB2UO0I want the query to get only the values that start with Q and third characters are in 9 and 2, so the results will show belowQ09Qv9QH2QB2select * from tblwhere vOrder like 'Q%' and (SUBSTRING(LTRIM(vOrder ),1,3) in ('3')) and (SUBSTRING(LTRIM(vOrder ),1,3) in ('5'))Can anyone plz help? |  |  
                                    | gbrittonMaster Smack Fu Yak Hacker
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2014-11-04 : 16:01:39 
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                                          | Select * from tblwhere vOrder like 'Q_9' or vOrder like 'Q_2'basically, ignore the second character. |  
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                                    | ktYak Posting Veteran
 
 
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                                          |  Posted - 2014-11-04 : 16:06:15 
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                                          | Thank you |  
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