Your SQL would need to be:<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">select xxxx from client where xxxx like '%A%'</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">to find "A" when it is in other positions other than the front.<br>
</span><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Paxdo Presse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paxdo@mac.com">paxdo@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div id=":17z">select xxxx from client where xxxx like 'A%'<br></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><a href="http://www.bluewatermaritime.com">http://www.bluewatermaritime.com</a><br>
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