Select statement: LIKE IN?

I have this SQL statement that I want to select as follows:
select * from customer where cust_desc like in (select partnumber from orders )
I hit an error doing this. How should I requery my sql statement?
Please note:
I retrieve 10 records when I did this query:
select partnumber from orders

Here is one sample case ->
satyaki>
satyaki>select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Prod
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE 10.2.0.1.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
Elapsed: 00:00:00.03
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>select *
2 from emp;
 EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO JOB1 DOB
 7521 WARD SALESMAN 7698 22-FEB-81 226.88 500 30 SALESMAN
 7654 MARTIN SALESMAN 7698 28-SEP-81 1815 1400 30 SALESMAN
 7788 SCOTT ANALYST 7566 19-APR-87 598.95 20 ANALYST
 7839 KING PRESIDENT 17-NOV-81 7260 10 PRESIDENT
 7844 TURNER SALESMAN 7698 08-SEP-81 2178 0 30 SALESMAN
 7876 ADAMS CLERK 7788 23-MAY-87 159.72 20 CLERK
 7900 JAMES CLERK 7698 03-DEC-81 1379.4 30 CLERK
 7902 FORD ANALYST 7566 03-DEC-81 5270.76 20 ANALYST
 7934 MILLER CLERK 7782 23-JAN-82 1887.6 10 CLERK
 7566 Smith Manager 7839 23-JAN-82 1848 0 10 Manager 23-JAN-89
 7698 Glen Manager 7839 23-JAN-82 1848 0 10 Manager 23-JAN-89
11 rows selected.
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>
satyaki>select * from emp
2 where ename like in ( select ename from emp where sal < 400);
 where ename like in ( select ename from emp where sal < 400)
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-00936: missing expression
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
satyaki>
satyaki>ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select * from emp
2* where ename like ( select ename from emp where sal < 400)
satyaki>/
 where ename like ( select ename from emp where sal < 400)
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-01427: single-row subquery returns more than one row
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
satyaki>
satyaki>ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1 select * from emp
2* where ename in ( select ename from emp where sal < 400)
satyaki>/
 EMPNO ENAME JOB MGR HIREDATE SAL COMM DEPTNO JOB1 DOB
 7521 WARD SALESMAN 7698 22-FEB-81 226.88 500 30 SALESMAN
 7876 ADAMS CLERK 7788 23-MAY-87 159.72 20 CLERK
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
satyaki>So, as you can see you cannot use two simultaneously or like in this way.
Regards.
Satyaki De.

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endexec.
loop at i_mara.
write:/ i_mara-matnr, i_mara-matkl.
endloop.
hope u got it.
regards
Mahesh
Edited by: Mahesh Reddy on Jan 21, 2009 2:32 PM

A trouble with "LIKE" in a select statement

Hi!
I'm having trouble with "LIKE" in a select statement...
With Access I can make the following and everything works well:
SELECT name, birthday
FROM client
WHERE birthday LIKE '*/02/*';
but if try to do it in my application (it uses Access), it doesn't work - I just can't understand that!!!
In my application the "month" is always the currently month taken from the "System". Look what I'm doing...
String query1 = "SELECT name, birthday " +
          "FROM client " +
          "WHERE birthday " +
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          pMonth +
          "/*' " +
          "ORDER BY birthday ASC ";
ResultSet rs = statement1.executeQuery(consulta1);
boolean moreRecords = rs.next();
The variable "moreRecords" is always "false", the query returns nothing although the table "client" has records that attend the query.
Please, anyone can help me?! It's a little bit urgent.
Thanks,
Katia.

Hi Katia,
I'll bet the problem lies with the characters you're using to escape the LIKE clause. You're using the ones that Access likes to see, but that's not necessarily what's built into the JDBC-ODBC driver class.
You can find out what the correct escape wildcard characters are from the java.sql.DatabaseMetaData.getSearchStringEscape() method. It'll tell you what to use in the LIKE clause.
I'm not 100% sure about your code. It doesn't use query1 anywhere. I'd do this:
String query = "SELECT name, birthday FROM client WHERE birthday LIKE ? ORDER BY birthday ASC";
PreparedStatement statement = connection.createStatement(query);
String escape = connection.getMetaData().getSearchStringEscape();
String test = escape + '/' + pMonth + '/' + escape;
statement.setString(1, test);
ResultSet rs = statement.executeQuery();
while (rs.hasNext())
// load your data into a data structure to pass back.
rs.close();
statement.close();Let me know if that works. - MOD

Not Like in Select Statement

Hi All,
My requirement is not to select the entries for the T024 table where the eknam is either starts with 'NOT VALID' or blank.
For that, I have written the select statement using NOT LIKE,
Will this negation in the select statement cause extra execution tiem?
If so, can you give some hint for alternative statement.
SELECT EKGRP EKNAM FROM T024 INTO TABLE IT_T024
IT_PURC WHERE EKGRP = S_EKGRP AND EKNAM NOT LIKE 'NOT VALID%' AND EKNAM NOT LIKE ' '.
Thanks,
Kal Chand

Hello,
For the first condition: not starting with 'NOT VALID' , I don't know other way apart from yours: EKNAM NOT LIKE 'NOT VALID%'.
For the second one, not starting with blank: EKNAM NOT LIKE ' '. Does it work? I think it compares if EKNAM is different from blank which can be done using: EKNAM NE ' '.
I hope it will help you.

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