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

Most of your likes are already covered by other likes. You can use likes with multiple values like this and get the same result:

SELECT * FROM tbl_ClientFile
WHERE 
  CLNTPOST1 LIKE ('B79%')
  OR CLNTPOST1 LIKE ('BB[12345689]%')
  OR CLNTPOST1 LIKE ('BD[1-6]%')

If you check for CLNTPOST1 is like BB1%, then you don't have to check for BB11% OR BB12%