SQL Multiple LIKE Statements

Question

I\'m currently working on a report that shows me all post codes covered by our sales team.

Each team covers over 100 post codes. What i would like to do is create a

Answer 1

One of possible solutions. Create a table Prefix(v varchar(4)) where you insert those values. Then a solution would be:

SELECT * 
FROM tbl_ClientFile cf
JOIN Prefix p on cf.CLNTPOST1 LIKE p.v + '%'

To exclude duplicates if some prefix includes some another prefix like BB1, BB10, BB15...:

SELECT DISTINCT cf.* 
FROM tbl_ClientFile cf
JOIN Prefix p on cf.CLNTPOST1 LIKE p.v + '%'