How do I use MS access SQL LIKE statement

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I have a MS Access(2007) table.
A column (called BD_Name) in the table contains a value =
"All - In - One Driving Academy".

I am trying to select that record with the value =
"All-In-One Driving Academy" ie SupplierName.

Note the spaces (or lack thereof) between the "-"'s.

I am trying to merge Suppliers and their Banking details from tables that were never related and populated by different people each with their own sense of what the supplier name should be.

Is there any way I can find that record?

The SQL statement is being issued by a VB.net (4.0) program.

Your advice and assistance, as always, is much appreciated.

What I have tried:

SQL

Ssql = "SELECT BD_Name, BD_AcNo, BD_BranchCode, BD_Bank FROM Supplier_Pastel_Bank_Details WHERE LCASE([Supplier_Pastel_Bank_Details.BD_Name]) LIKE LCASE('%" & SupplierName & "%')"

Posted 7-Mar-17 23:31pm

Darrell de Wet

Updated 8-Mar-17 0:00am

Richard MacCutchan

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Solution 1

Like Operator - Access[^].

Posted 7-Mar-17 23:33pm

Richard MacCutchan

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Darrell de Wet 8-Mar-17 6:45am

Thanks, Richard, for the quick response. I will take a good hard look that these.

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-08T00:00:00

Solution 2

You can use REPLACE to remove all spaces from a string (untested):

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WHERE LCASE(REPLACE([Supplier_Pastel_Bank_Details.BD_Name], ' ', '') LIKE LCASE(REPLACE('%" & SupplierName & "%'), ' ', '')"

But I suggest to check the results manually to avoid false positives.

In your case it might be also necessary to ignore trailing dots like with "Company Inc." and Company Inc".

Posted 8-Mar-17 0:00am

Jochen Arndt

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Darrell de Wet 8-Mar-17 6:42am

Now that's a good idea. I did not know that I could use .Replace in my Select statement.
Thank you very much.