Picture Perfect 4.6 User Manual - UTCFS Global Security Products

Chapter 14
Reports
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Characters typically used in a LIKE string are:
% A percent character matches zero or more characters.
_ An underscore character matches any single character.
Example: The following SQL select statement retrieves a list of reader descriptions from the
reader table where the reader description starts with the characters Lob and ends with zero or
more unspecified characters.
SELECT description FROM reader WHERE description LIKE "Lob%"
Example: The following SQL select statement retrieves a list of reader descriptions from the
reader table where the reader description contains the word Door or DOOR anywhere in the
description.
SELECT description FROM reader WHERE description LIKE "%Door%" OR "%DOOR%"
Logical operators
Use AND, OR, and NOT to connect one or more search conditions that create a comparison
condition.
AND
OR
Use AND to retrieve data that matches both of the values connected by AND.
The following SQL comparison statement retrieves each reader described as Engineering
Reader and also has a set interval time of less than 5 seconds.
SELECT description FROM reader WHERE description = "Engineering Reader" AND
Interval_Time < 5
Use OR to retrieve data that matches either one of the values connected by OR.
The following SQL comparison statement retrieves reader descriptions that match either Lobby
Reader or Cafeteria Reader:
SELECT description FROM reader WHERE description = "Lobby Reader" OR description =
"Cafeteria Reader"
NOT IN
Use NOT IN to screen out data that you do not want in the report.
For example, the following SQL comparison statement retrieves all reader descriptions except
those described as Engineering or Antipassback.
SELECT description FROM reader WHERE description NOT IN ("Engineering", "Antipassback
Reader")