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Differentiate LIKE ‘a%’ and LIKE ‘a_’

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%, it replaces a string but _ replaces only one character at a time. LIKE ‘a%’ retrieve all strings of any length that start with letter ‘a.’ while LIKE ‘a_’ retrieve all two letter strings that start with letter ‘a’.

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