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Quantified LIKE predicate

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

jOOQ also provides the synthetic [NOT] LIKE ANY and [NOT] LIKE ALL operators, which can be used to (positively resp. negatively) match a string against multiple patterns without having to manually string together multiple [NOT] LIKE predicates with AND or OR (learn about other synthetic sql syntaxes). The following examples show how these synthetic predicates translate to SQL:

(TITLE     LIKE '%abc%'  OR TITLE     LIKE '%def%')
(TITLE NOT LIKE '%abc%'  OR TITLE NOT LIKE '%def%')
(TITLE     LIKE '%abc%' AND TITLE     LIKE '%def%')
(TITLE NOT LIKE '%abc%' AND TITLE NOT LIKE '%def%')
BOOK.TITLE.like(any("%abc%", "%def%"))
BOOK.TITLE.notLike(any("%abc%", "%def%"))
BOOK.TITLE.like(all("%abc%", "%def%"))
BOOK.TITLE.notLike(all("%abc%", "%def%"))

All corresponding Java methods Field.like(QuantifiedSelect) and Field.notLike(QuantifiedSelect) return an instance of LikeEscapeStep, which can be used to specify an ESCAPE clause that will be applied to all patterns in the list. For brevity the examples above don't show this.

Note that both the LIKE ANY and LIKE ALL predicates allow matching a string against an empty list of patterns. For example, in the case of LIKE ANY this is equivalent to a 1 = 0 predicate and in the case of NOT LIKE ALL this behaves like 1 = 1.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

BOOK.TITLE.like(any(select(concat(val("%"), LANGUAGE.CD, val("%"))).from(LANGUAGE)))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

ASE, DB2, Firebird, Sybase, Teradata

1 = ANY (
  SELECT CASE
    WHEN BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern THEN 1
    WHEN NOT (BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern) THEN 0
  END
  FROM (
    SELECT ('%' || LANGUAGE.CD || '%') pattern
    FROM LANGUAGE
  ) t
)

Aurora MySQL, MariaDB, MySQL

TRUE = ANY (
  SELECT (BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern)
  FROM (
    SELECT concat('%', LANGUAGE.CD, '%') pattern
    FROM LANGUAGE
  ) t
)

Aurora Postgres, ClickHouse, CockroachDB, Postgres, Snowflake, YugabyteDB

BOOK.TITLE LIKE ANY (
  SELECT ('%' || LANGUAGE.CD || '%')
  FROM LANGUAGE
)

Derby, DuckDB, H2, HSQLDB, Oracle, Vertica

TRUE = ANY (
  SELECT (BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern)
  FROM (
    SELECT ('%' || LANGUAGE.CD || '%') pattern
    FROM LANGUAGE
  ) t
)

Hana

TRUE = ANY (
  SELECT CASE
    WHEN BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern THEN TRUE
    WHEN NOT (BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern) THEN FALSE
  END
  FROM (
    SELECT ('%' || LANGUAGE.CD || '%') pattern
    FROM LANGUAGE
  ) t
)

Informix

CAST('t' AS boolean) = ANY (
  SELECT CASE
    WHEN BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern THEN CAST('t' AS boolean)
    WHEN NOT (BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern) THEN CAST('f' AS boolean)
  END
  FROM (
    SELECT ('%' || LANGUAGE.CD || '%') pattern
    FROM LANGUAGE
  ) t
)

SQLServer

1 = ANY (
  SELECT CASE
    WHEN BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern THEN 1
    WHEN NOT (BOOK.TITLE LIKE pattern) THEN 0
  END
  FROM (
    SELECT ('%' + LANGUAGE.CD + '%') pattern
    FROM LANGUAGE
  ) t
)

Access, BigQuery, Exasol, MemSQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLite, Trino

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