Distinct in the Advanced Sort/Search form will only return a single occurrence of rows which have duplication in the fields. Two wild cards may be placed in the search string(s) for the 'LIKE' operator;

Otherwise search string(s) based on the 'LIKE' operator use an exact character match. The normal search interface automatically inserts a leading and trailing percent '%' character using the 'LIKE' operator.

Many wild card type characters may be placed in the search string(s) for the 'REGEXP' operator. It is beyond the scope of this basic information frame to give a detailed account of pattern matching with this option, but some common metacharacters are given below

Many wild card type characters may be placed in the search string(s) for the 'POSTFIX' operator. It is beyond the scope of this basic information frame to give a detailed account of pattern matching with this option, but some common metacharacters are given below

The operators AND and OR are based on the Intersection and Union respectively with a given search. The below example illustrate the difference between the typical boolean aspects of the these operators.

Given two search results:


A AND B = {22.60, 34.23, 44.35}
A OR B = {0.00, 11.00, 13.00, 22.00, 22.60, 34.35, 44.35, 100.00}