SQL Query editor misbehaving

Question

SQL query builder does not allow LIKE criteria for selecting
data, as in:
SELECT ALL ROOT.PERSON.PERSONID,
                         ROOT.PERSON.JOBTITLE,
                         ROOT.PERSON.FREQUENTFLYER,
                         ROOT.PERSON.NAME
    FROM ROOT.PERSON
WHERE PERSON.NAME LIKE ? ;I tried editing the JAVA code for my web form directly:
           personRowSet.setCommand("SELECT ALL ROOT.PERSON.PERSONID, ROOT.PERSON.JOBTITLE,
ROOT.PERSON.FREQUENTFLYER, ROOT.PERSON.NAME
\nFROM ROOT.PERSON\nWHERE PERSON.NAME LIKE ?");
but as soon as I click on the SQL Query editor, eg. to add an output column, an error window pops up, and in the JAVA
code the 'LIKE' statement becomes '='.
I tried typing the 'LIKE' criteria in the SQL source code window,
but I get the same behaviour: the JAVA source gets updated, but
as soon as I return to the SQL Query editor, the error window
pops up and the 'LIKE' statement is replaced by '='.
Otherwise I found the way the IDE handles data table
component binding to database data rather elegant.
lovely work, guys!

Answer 1

Nice to know that, thanks for the feedback.
Please consider the "LIKE" operator a very powerful and useful SQL keyword, by means of which you can incorporate all kinds of expressions in order to build a comparison that is much like regular expressions.
Whoever used the LIKE operator to select stuff is probably never give it away because it is so powerful and programmable with variables and all sorts of constructs - you can practically go after any "text" field with it and get it your way.
I personally would rather have the EQUAL operator handle regular expressions directly - but I found LIKE easier and more viable to handle programmatically using variables/field contents as part of the search arguments. This ia also a limitation of SQL Server, Access, etc. - but you can't say that they didn't provide you with a suitable ersatz.
So I guess supporting LIKE makes sense for Studio Creator...