At 12:42 -0500 6/12/02, Jeff Field wrote:
>I have a quick question regarding queries that involve values in ENUM
>columns. Here's the scenario:
>
>I have an ENUM column (category) that can have the values ('Gambling',
>'Geographic', 'Medical', 'Sports'). Most of the records have only one of
>the category descriptions but some are categorized in two or more of the
>category descriptions.
That's impossible. It sounds like you really mean SET, not ENUM.
>When I do a query and my WHERE clause is
>
>WHERE category = 'Gambling'
>
>it only pulls the records for which 'Gambling' is the only value. To get
>*all* the records, including the records where the category value might be
>(Gambling, Sports), I have to use the wildcard, as in
>
>WHERE category = '%Gambling%'
>
>Here's the question:
>
>Although this may be exactly what I have to do to get those records, my own
>personal expectation was that the first query (without the wildcards) should
>have been fine. Is having to use wildcards with an ENUM column in the WHERE
>clause correct? Or, am I missing something here?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Jeff
