Why doesn't SQL LIKE work in Microsoft Access?

Question

I want to my make a search-statement and query things like this

select * from table where col like \'%vkvk%\' 

But with trial and error I\'

Answer 1

I tried several "Like" syntax on one request, (I'm using VB.NET and a MS-ACCESS 2010 database), and none of them could get any other result than throwing an exception.Why? I'm not having any idea about that.

I did this workaround that could be useful on some similar cases: Instead of

SELECT dbFieldDisplayName FROM dbTableName WHERE dbFieldSearchName Like 'A*'

I Used:

SELECT dbFieldDisplayName FROM dbTableName WHERE dbFieldSearchName >='A' AND dbFieldSearchName <'AZZZ'