Query word starting with....from string caught in web app

Hi all
This should be easy for one of you pros out there...
I take a single string(one letter) from a textbox and want to query my
database for a name that starts with that letter.
I know that the correct synthax when you know the letter is:

WHERE FirstName LIKE 'O%'

but when I have this:
*****************
Dim lastname As String
lastname = txtlastname.Text

Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM [" & PubName & "] WHERE Last_Name
like ' txtlastname % ' "
**********************************************
It doesn't seem to work since my datagrid is empty afterwards. I also
tried:
***************
Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM [" & PubName & "] WHERE Last_Name
like '" & txtlastname & " % ' "
****************
without succes...
It's probably just a synthax error on my part but I don'T know were..
THanks guys!!
JMTI got it to work with my variable 'lastname'
Got the answer form another forum, here's how:

And Last_Name like '" & lastname & "%'"

If it can help someone!!
JMT|||It may just be a posting error, but it looks as if you have a couple of
spaces in your string construction; the second looks closer to correct:

Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM [" & PubName & "] WHERE
Last_Name
like '" & txtlastname & "%'

Assuming that PUBNAME is a table named TABLE, and txtLastName = A, then
the final SQL String should look like:

SELECT * FROM [TABLE] WHERE Last_Name LIKE 'A%',

Stu|||I got it to work with my variable 'lastname'
Got the answer form another forum, here's how:

And Last_Name like '" & lastname & "%'"

If it can help someone!!
JMT

Query word starting with....from string caught in web app

Hi all
This should be easy for one of you pros out there...
I take a single string(one letter) from a textbox and want to query my
database for a name that starts with that letter.
I know that the correct synthax when you know the letter is:

WHERE FirstName LIKE 'O%'

but when I have this:
*****************
Dim lastname As String
lastname = txtlastname.Text

Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM [" & PubName & "] WHERE Last_Name
like ' txtlastname % ' "
**********************************************
It doesn't seem to work since my datagrid is empty afterwards. I also
tried:
***************
Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM [" & PubName & "] WHERE Last_Name
like '" & txtlastname & " % ' "
****************
without succes...
It's probably just a synthax error on my part but I don'T know were..
THanks guys!!
JMTIt may just be a posting error, but it looks as if you have a couple of
spaces in your string construction; the second looks closer to correct:

Dim strSQL As String = "SELECT * FROM [" & PubName & "] WHERE
Last_Name
like '" & txtlastname & "%'

Assuming that PUBNAME is a table named TABLE, and txtLastName = A, then
the final SQL String should look like:

SELECT * FROM [TABLE] WHERE Last_Name LIKE 'A%',

Stu

Query where feild name is reserved

Using query analyzer, how can I return a column (desc in this case)
that is also a reserved word?
I'm working with a commercial product so I can't change the name of
the column.
I've tried things like:
Select desc from foo
Select 'desc' from foo
select id,desc from foo
etc...
each one gives me: Error near reserved word 'desc'
Thanks.ANSI SQL compliant:
SELECT "desc" FROM foo
SQL Server specific:
SELECT [desc] FROM foo
--
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
<Scamp@.nospam.com> wrote in message news:i187l2tkup4aols7dv9kvbr4gfjd51626t@.4ax.com...
> Using query analyzer, how can I return a column (desc in this case)
> that is also a reserved word?
> I'm working with a commercial product so I can't change the name of
> the column.
> I've tried things like:
> Select desc from foo
> Select 'desc' from foo
> select id,desc from foo
> etc...
> each one gives me: Error near reserved word 'desc'
>
> Thanks.
>|||When encountering any object name that is a reserved word, enclose it in
either double quotes, or square brackets.
"desc" or [desc]
And when you use multiple part names, such as:
MyDatabase.dbo.Table
enclose on the reserved word part of the name in delimiters:
MyDatabase.dbo.[Table]
--
Arnie Rowland, Ph.D.
Westwood Consulting, Inc
Most good judgment comes from experience.
Most experience comes from bad judgment.
- Anonymous
You can't help someone get up a hill without getting a little closer to the
top yourself.
- H. Norman Schwarzkopf
<Scamp@.nospam.com> wrote in message
news:i187l2tkup4aols7dv9kvbr4gfjd51626t@.4ax.com...
> Using query analyzer, how can I return a column (desc in this case)
> that is also a reserved word?
> I'm working with a commercial product so I can't change the name of
> the column.
> I've tried things like:
> Select desc from foo
> Select 'desc' from foo
> select id,desc from foo
> etc...
> each one gives me: Error near reserved word 'desc'
>
> Thanks.
>sql