Using LIKE operator doesnt return results

Hi
I'm very new to SQL and databases in general. I have a vb.NET app in which I'm trying to send a SQL server to a SQL Server 2012 server.
For testing purposes Im using SQL SErver Management studio. I have one query that works, but when I try to use the exact same query using wildcard in the statement, it returns no results even though I know for a fact that the table contains such values.
This works:
SELECT number
FROM casenumber
WHERE number = '100510'
This, for some reason, does NOT work:
SELECT number
FROM casenumber
WHERE number LIKE '100%'
What am I doing wrong? Help, pretty please? Many thanks in advance!

When you use WHERE number = '100510' to get your result, it is not right way to do it.
When you ask Tsql question, you should provide your table DDL (table column and data type...).
Since your number column is a float numeric type, you don't need to use quotes around it. You cannot use
a string LIKE search with a number unless you convert the column to string type.
The final query may give you the result you want but you still don't get the point for this question.
To operate with the appropriate data type matters a lot in T-SQL.

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