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Backwards LIKE Statements

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URL: http://www.petefreitag.com/item/619.cfm

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  1. Sometimes you need TO think backwards.
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  3. Here was the problem. I needed TO match up some IP address ranges TO the company that owns them. Looking FOR a simple solution TO the problem I came up WITH storing the IP address block patterns IN the DATABASE AS follows:
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  5. ip_pattern
  6. ----------------
  7. 127.%.%.%
  8. 192.168.%.%
  9. 10.%.%.%
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  11. Any idea why I choose % AS the wildcard?
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  13. That's right - it's the wildcard operator IN SQL FOR the LIKE statement.
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  15. So now when I have have an IP address 192.168.1.1, I can do what I LIKE TO call a backwards LIKE query:
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  17. SELECT company, ip_pattern
  18. FROM company_blocks
  19. WHERE '192.168.1.1' LIKE ip_pattern
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  21. This works ON SQL Server AND MySQL, AND I would think it should work fine ON any DATABASE server.

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