How do I query for something that starts with certain characters?

Question

Here is my code:

SELECT SRV_NAME, TOT_CPU, TOT_MEM, SNAP_DATE
FROM capacity.SRV_CAPACITY_SEV
WHERE SRV_NAME in ('absshs1p", "AA03server', 'AA02server', 'BA01server', 'BA03server', 'BC03server') AND SNAP_DATE BETWEEN to_date('10-jun-2012 00:00:00', 'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss') AND to_date('12-jun-2012 00:00:00', 'dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
ORDER BY SRV_NAME desc, SNAP_DATE desc;

How would I query for servers that begin with certain characters? For example, how could I serach for servers that only begin with 'AA'?

I am using Oracle SQL btw.

Solution

You can do this

WHERE SRV_NAME LIKE 'AA%'

Comments

[Wuz]

Thanks! I figured it was something simple like this but I wasn't finding straight forward answers online. This worked like a charm! Thanks again!

[Vadzim]

Beware that LIKE honors special chars _ and % that may need to be escaped: stackoverflow.com/questions/21380261/…