MySQL LIKE with range doesn't work

Question

I\'ve got a database table mytable with a column name in Varchar format, and column date with Datetime values. I\'d like to count names with certa

Answer 1

You write:

It seems that there's something wrong with range syntax here

Indeed so. MySQL's LIKE operator (and SQL generally) does not support range notation, merely simple wildcards.

Try MySQL's nonstandard RLIKE (a.k.a. REGEXP), for fuller-featured pattern matching.