MS Access Query -LIKE x0x6 - sql

Question

im using MS Access as DB and the Field im searching is a Short Text. would like to know how i could search a field and match it with wildcards. For example('x' is wildcard) -
x0x6 (matches 1016, 1076.....)
x06x (matches 9067, 3068....)
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have search online and found sample using this - % ? #, but none works for me :/
here is my sql query -
SELECT COUNT(DPlace) as CounTotal
FROM tblTest2
WHERE DSide=1 AND
DNumber LIKE '%06%' AND DDate BETWEEN #09-13-16# AND #09-13-17#
SELECT COUNT(DPlace) as CounTotal
FROM tblTest2
WHERE DSide=1 AND
DNumber LIKE '%0%6' AND DDate BETWEEN #09-13-16# AND #09-13-17#
Both the sql above returns wrong result as they matches all field that has '06'. Please advice. Thank you.

Answer 1

Here is an explanation of why [0-9] works and ? and # does not in your LIKE pattern. TL;DR - You are using the Access backend which runs ANSI-92 mode.
Background
MS Access is a unique type of software in that it is two-fold:
FRONT-END: A GUI .exe program and part of the MS Office Suite (with Word/Excel/PowerPoint) only for Windows installs. This GUI program can serve as a "front-end" to connect to any ODBC/OLEDB compliant "back-end" RDBMS database such as SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, etc.
BACK-END: By default, Access GUI connects to the Windows' JET/ACE SQL Engine (Windows .dll files), a file-system data store, which over time has been considered the "Access database" but any Windows program or script can connect to it without MSAccess.exe installed. Likewise, any application layer language (VB, C#, PHP, Python, Java) with appropriate ODBC/OLEDB libraries can connect to this backend. In fact, when using the GUI, VBA is connected by default! So really Access is a GUI console to database (#1 definition).
OP as commented is using VB6 (application code) to connect to the JET/ACE engine as a backend database, no where using the GUI program.
LIKE Operator
The above dichotomy is particularly relevant concerning the LIKE operator:
Using the GUI version of Access, its SQL dialect tends to be ANSI-plus and can interface with VBA. Hence, the LIKE operator behaves very similar to VBA's LIKE operator. Also, the LIKE operator runs in ANSI-89 mode which uses the asterisk * and not % wildcard for LIKE as well as ? and #. Even so, the GUI's LIKE can use percentage symbol with the ALIKE operator or setting the database to ANSI-92 mode (and not the default ANSI-89).
Using the backend database of Access as OP does, the SQL dialect uses ANSI-92 mode which MS docs show include:
%: Matches any number of characters. It can be used as the first or last character in the character string.
_: Matches any single character within the brackets.
[]: Matches any single alphabetic character.
-: Matches any one of a range of characters. You must specify the range in ascending order (A to Z, not Z to A).
Notice unlike the ANSI-89 mode, the symbols ? and # are not included. But the last symbol, the hyphen, matches a range of characters such as digits, [0-9]. The same below SQL statement if run inside the MSAccess.exe will not return same results unless you run in ANSI-92 mode.
SELECT COUNT(DPlace) as CountTotal
FROM tblTest2
WHERE DSide=1
AND DNumber LIKE '[0-9]0[0-9]6'
AND DDate BETWEEN #09-13-16# AND #09-13-17#

Answer 2

MS Access uses different like patterns from other databases. These are well-documented.
From what you describe, you want either:
DNumber LIKE '?06?'
where ? can be any character.
or:
DNumber LIKE '#06#'
where # is specifically a digit.
You can also write the latter as:
DNumber LIKE '[0-9]06[0-9]'
and this will work in SQL Server as well.
In any other database, the placeholder for any character is _:
DNumber LIKE '_06_'
This does not have the same effect in MS Access.

Answer 3

In Access it will be:
SELECT
COUNT(*) as CounTotal
FROM
tblTest2
WHERE
DSide=1 AND DNumber LIKE '?0?6' AND DDate BETWEEN #09-13-16# AND #09-13-17#