SQL Exercises: Using where clause with like operator

SQL Wildcard & Special Operator: Exercise-9 with Solution

From the following table, write a SQL query to retrieve the details of the customers whose names begins with the letter 'B'. Return customer_id, cust_name, city, grade, salesman_id.

Sample table: customer

 customer_id |   cust_name    |    city    | grade | salesman_id 
-------------+----------------+------------+-------+-------------
        3002 | Nick Rimando   | New York   |   100 |        5001
        3007 | Brad Davis     | New York   |   200 |        5001
        3005 | Graham Zusi    | California |   200 |        5002
        3008 | Julian Green   | London     |   300 |        5002
        3004 | Fabian Johnson | Paris      |   300 |        5006
        3009 | Geoff Cameron  | Berlin     |   100 |        5003
        3003 | Jozy Altidor   | Moscow     |   200 |        5007
        3001 | Brad Guzan     | London     |       |        5005

Sample Solution :

-- This query selects all columns from the 'customer' table.
SELECT *
-- Specifies the table from which to retrieve the data (in this case, 'customer').
FROM customer
-- Filters the rows to only include those where the 'cust_name' column starts with the letter 'B'.
WHERE cust_name LIKE 'B%';

Output of the Query:

customer_id	cust_name	city		grade	salesman_id
3007		Brad Davis	New York	200	5001
3001		Brad Guzan	London			5005

Code Explanation:

The said SQL query selects all columns (*) from the 'customer' table where the value of the "cust_name" column starts with the letter 'B' .
The '%' is a wildcard character in SQL, which can match any string of any length (including an empty string).
The 'LIKE' operator is used to search for a specific pattern in a column.

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