Please Help: query matching string value in WHERE clause

Question

Hi Everyone,
I am trying to query customers that has matching first and last name but, I am getting result of every customer that has first and last name. Here is what my query looks like:
SELECT * FROM  CUSTOMERS WHERE
CUSTOMER_FNAME IN
'JOHN', 'MIKE'
AND CUSTOMER_LNAME IN
'DOE', 'MILLER'
); I am trying to query customer name that is JOHN DOE and MIKE MILLER but, i get result of all names that has the first/last names not exact match. Is there way i can do that get exact match?
Thanks,
SM

Answer 1

Frank Kulash wrote:
Hi,
chris227 wrote:
SMCR wrote:
Thanks everyone for your help!
There are two correct answers, I am using following:I just see one, it's Franks.If fname never contains a '~' (or if lname never contains a '~") then
{code}
where fname||'~'||lname in ('JOHN~DOE', 'MIKE~MILLER');
{code}
will work.Yes, I realized that. For the purpose i am using i will not have any issue with '~'
I did however changed it up a little, here is how it looks like:
{code}
SELECT CUSTOMER_ID, CUSTOMER_FNAME, CUSTOMER_LNAME, DATE_OF_BIRTH
FROM CUSTOMERS
WHERE (CUSTOMER_FNAME||'~'||CUSTOMER_LNAME, DATE_OF_BIRTH) IN
(('JOHN~DOE'), (TO_DATE('20130101', 'YYYYMMDD'))),
(('MIKE~MILLER'), (TO_DATE('20130101', 'YYYYMMDD')))
{code}