Need help in fetching the record - MySql

[rishibala143]

Hi

I had a table name tbl_purchase

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `tbl_purchase` (
`pur_id` bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,
`pur_code` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`pur_tot_prod` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
`pur_prod_code` text NOT NULL,
`pur_dt` date NOT NULL,
`pur_status` char(1) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`pur_id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=3 ;


Records in the table :

|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Pur_id | pur_code | pur_tot_prod | pur_prod_code | pur_dt | pur_status |
|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|

1 PU1001 3 P2001|||P2002|||P2003 2011-02-03 Y
2 PU1002 2 P2001|||P2003 2011-02-04 Y
3 PU1002 1 P2004 2011-02-04 Y

This is how the values stored. Now i want to generate an report using product code.

If the user types P2003 it should fetch 2 records. Since the product code are stored like P2001|||P2002|||P2003.

How can i fetch ? Please help me....


Thanks & Regards
P.Balakrishnan

[guido2004]

Don't store them like that. Normalize your database. Get rid of those multiple values in one column, and use a purchase_products table instead. How are you storing a purchase of more than one unit of the same article right now anyway?

[rishibala143]

Don't store them like that. Normalize your database. Get rid of those multiple values in one column, and use a purchase_products table instead. How are you storing a purchase of more than one unit of the same article right now anyway?

My old developer developed the project by storing values like this. I cannot able to change the code now. I want to write a query to fetch the values for generating the reports. Is there anyway to fetch the values using these values...

Help me :-(

[guido2004]

WHERE pur_prod_code like '%P2003%'

And never hire that developer again

[r937]

I cannot able to change the code now.

of course you can

what you actually meant to say is that you don't want to