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SQL LIKE statement to text field fomr CF MX 6.1

Subject: SQL LIKE statement to text field fomr CF MX 6.1
From: "MichaelSJudd" <mikejudd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:37:26 +0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups: macromedia.coldfusion.database_access

Hi.

 Here's my scenario. I am running SQL Server 2000 SP4 on a Windows 2003 Server 
running IIS 6. Using ColdFusion MX 6.1 Updater version.

 I am storing HTML page code (some complete, some just clips) in a text type 
field.

 I need to check to see if someone has already saved that exact code already 
before. So I do the following query:

 <cfquery name="checkforexisting" datasource="mydatasource">
 SELECT smallfieldtogetareturn
 FROM MyTable
 WHERE MyTextField LIKE '%#mystringoflongdata#%'
 </cfquery>

 Then to see if it posted:

 <cfif checkforexisting.RecordCount GT 0>
 do the don't clip optional processing
 </cfif>

 What is killing me is that it finds the match SOMETIMES. Just not ALL the 
time. I have tried no percent signs when passing the ColdFusion variable, only 
one on the right (which has solved these types of problems before).

 If I pull the record back OUT of the database in a page by itself (retrieving 
it by key field), it finds every other copy of the code EVERY time. 

 I have put this into a stored procedure, which seemed to help (?).

 I even have resorted to creating a temp table first with the clip, then 
running a query to retrieve the record that was just put in, and comparing THAT 
to my primary table (both have text type fields). The reason for this, is that 
if I write a single page that has just the retrieval of the temp record, and 
that compare is run, it finds EVERY copy of it in the primary table. I also 
thought that maybe there was a strong problem (I had tried HTMLEditFormat, 
HTMLCodeFormat, JavaCast since it was coming from a java program on the browser 
end).

 I am not terribly familiar with using large text fields, or dealing with these 
large pieces of HTML code as something to compare!

 - Mike


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