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Thanks for the quick response!

Is it possible to use a LIKE with an IN statement? The following example might make this more clear. SELECT stuff from joined tables WHERE searchTerm IN (SELECT allkeywords) What I want to want to have happen is if the keywords returned by the inner query is "barely" and the searchTerm is...

It was just a syntax error ')' or something like that. I double checked to make sure I didnt have a stray paren somewhere. I guess I must have though. Thanks for the UNION ALL advice as well.

Sorry, spoke too soon. This works, thanks so much! I am very grateful for this forum. I don't know why it didn't work before, the only difference this time around was the "as d GROUP BY WIID". Oh and I guess you can't believe everything you hear.

Thanks for the quick response. I was led to believe MSSQL 2000 didn't support sub queries like this. When I try it this way (I have already tried this) it just gives me a syntax error. Maybe it is from a stray mark, I'm not sure... any other suggestions would be helpful.

I am trying to write a very simple search page where a user can search for images stored in the database by typing a search term. Images in the database have three attributes that lend themself to searching: Category, Keyword, and Description. I want to compare the search term the user...