Java odcb statment "LIKE" causing problems

Question

I'm working on some java+ odbc and i'm trying to execture a query,
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
                String dataSourceName = "sgdat";
                String dbURL = "jdbc:odbc:" + dataSourceName;
                Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection(dbURL, "","");
                Statement s = con.createStatement();
                ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery("SELECT s.id, s.name FROM s ");This works fine, however when i add the Statement LIKE things go wrong, i dont get any results back into rs
ResultSet rs = s.executeQuery("SELECT s.id, s.name FROM s LIKE '55*' ;");
When i run this query in Access, it displays fine, but copy pasting this into java doesnt work.
I'm guessing it's the '' quotation marks...can anybody help?
Message was edited by:
nonamesir
Message was edited by:
nonamesir

Answer 1

You need a WHERE clause. For example select * from foo where bar like '%baz%'(Note, %, not * for the wildcard.)
Also, you should use a PreparedStatement
PreparedStatement ps = con.prepareStatement("select * from foo where bar like ?");
ps.setString(1, "%baz%");
rs = ps.executeQuery();This prevents SQL injection and prevents you from having to diddle around escaping special SQL characters, formatting dates, etc.