SQL query to check if a name begins and ends with a vowel

Question

I want to query the list of CITY names from the table STATION(id, city, longitude, latitude) which have vowels as both their first and last charact

Answer 1

You could use a regular expression:

SELECT DISTINCT city
FROM   station
WHERE  city RLIKE '^[aeiouAEIOU].*[aeiouAEIOU]$'