Playing with Patterns

The following recipes concern retrieving data when there's lots of action in the WHERE clause but the joins are simple. The four queries retrieve data by matching patterns in various ways. Read on to learn how to find

  • Character data when you're not sure whether it's uppercase, lowercase, or mixed

  • Data within a range with unknown values

  • Date data

  • Summary values based on date units

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