Binding with a LIKE query

I am using PHP and ORACLE and am having trouble with binding. I can get a basic bind to work, but I am having trouble with a more complex query like this:
$oracle_search_name = 'some input text';
$query1 = "SELECT source_title FROM records WHERE UPPER(source_title) LIKE UPPER('%$oracle_search_name%')";
It works OK without binding, but how can I replace $oracle_search_name with a bind variable? Simply replacing the $ sign with a colon doesn't seem to work.

Hey cj,
Thanks for the help! That seems to do the trick.
I noticed that you capitalized the bind variable in the OciBindByName() function. Is that required? Here is my example:
OciBindByName($s, ":MY_BIND_VARIABLE", $my_bind_variable, -1); // Capitalized ":MY_BIND_VARIABLE"
Also, another question: Will Oracle automatically understand to bind multiple instances of the bind variable like this?
SELECT tid, col1, col2, col3 FROM test1 WHERE UPPER(col1) LIKE UPPER('%'||:my_bind_variable||'%') OR UPPER(col2) LIKE UPPER('%'||:my_bind_variable||'%')
That seems to work correctly but I am having trouble finding a detailed reference online about binding in Oracle.
Thanks again for the input.

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I have a person table, the person table has a field which has their interests... In a form they choose which interests they have i.e. swimming, tennis through checkboxes. What i don't get IS how do i create a query based on this? (for example one person likes swimming and the other tennis:
SELECT * from Person WHERE interests LIKE '%Swimming%Tennis%';
the above gives me 0 results any ideas?

You can avoid difficult application issues by enabling a more appropriate schema.
Here is a very basic schema that may or may not work for you, but I hope it will give you some ideas. I did not create any unique indexes in this sample, but both PERSON and INTEREST table would have a unique index created on them. The PERSON_INTEREST table would have a non-unique index created for it. I also included a query that shows how to correctly query against this schema. This is in Oracle syntax, but the DDL should be similar to whatever DBMS you are using, and the SQL should be the same.
I'll be honest, this might be overkill for what you are attempting, but if you plan on extending your project / assignment in anyway, you would be better off with a more complete schema. I hope it helps. Good luck on your project / assignment.
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CREATE TABLE INTEREST        (INTEREST_ID NUMBER, INTEREST_DESC VARCHAR2(20));
CREATE TABLE PERSON_INTEREST (PERSON_ID NUMBER,   INTEREST_ID NUMBER);
INSERT INTO PERSON VALUES(1, 'SMITH','JOHN','[email protected]');
INSERT INTO PERSON VALUES(2, 'JONES','FRED','[email protected]');
INSERT INTO PERSON VALUES(3, 'ANDERSON','TOM','[email protected]');
INSERT INTO PERSON VALUES(4, 'JACOBSEN','SAM','[email protected]');
INSERT INTO PERSON VALUES(5, 'PUCKETT','KIRBY','[email protected]');
INSERT INTO INTEREST VALUES (1,'TENNIS');
INSERT INTO INTEREST VALUES (2,'SWIMMING');
INSERT INTO INTEREST VALUES (3,'BOWLING');
INSERT INTO INTEREST VALUES (4,'TABLE TENNIS');
INSERT INTO INTEREST VALUES (5,'FISHING');
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (1,1);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (1,3);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (1,5);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (2,2);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (2,3);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (3,1);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (3,2);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (4,2);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (4,3);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (5,4);
INSERT INTO PERSON_INTEREST VALUES (5,5);
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   A.NAME_LAST,
   A.NAME_FIRST,
   B.INTEREST_DESC
FROM
   PERSON A,
   INTEREST B,
   PERSON_INTEREST C
WHERE
   A.NAME_LAST = 'SMITH'
   AND A.NAME_FIRST = 'JOHN'
   AND A.PERSON_ID = C.PERSON_ID
   AND B.INTEREST_ID = C.INTEREST_ID
ORDER BY 3
NAME_LAST            NAME_FIRST           INTEREST_DESC
SMITH                JOHN                 BOWLING
SMITH                JOHN                 FISHING
SMITH                JOHN                 TENNIS
// Find all people who likes to swim and bowl
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   A.NAME_FIRST
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   AND A.PERSON_ID = C.PERSON_ID
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   A.NAME_LAST,
   A.NAME_FIRST
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JACOBSEN             SAM
JONES                FRED
SMITH                JOHN

Cm:select performance problem with multiple likes query clause

I have query like 
 listItem like '*abc.xml*' && serviceId like '*xyz.xml*' 
 Can we have two likes clauses mentioned above in the cm:select. The above is executing successfully but takes too much time to process. 
 Can we simplify the above mentioned query or any solution. Please help me in this issue. 
 Thanks & Regards, 
 Murthy Nalluri

A few notes:
1. You seem to have either a VPD policy active or you're using views that add some more predicates to the query, according to the plan posted (the access on the PK_OPERATOR_GROUP index). Could this make any difference?
2. The estimates of the optimizer are really very accurate - actually astonishing - compared to the tkprof output, so the optimizer seems to have a very good picture of the cardinalities and therefore the plan should be reasonable.
3. Did you gather index statistics as well (using COMPUTE STATISTICS when creating the index or "cascade=>true" option) when gathering the statistics? I assume you're on 9i, not 10g according to the plan and tkprof output.
4. Looking at the amount of data that needs to be processed it is unlikely that this query takes only 3 seconds, the 20 seconds seems to be OK.
If you are sure that for a similar amount of underlying data the query took only 3 seconds in the past it would be very useful if you - by any chance - have an execution plan at hand of that "3 seconds" execution.
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eg call .../temp.xsql?name=N
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Hi Jeyakanthan,
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