[sql] How do I add multiple "NOT LIKE '%?%' in the WHERE clause of sqlite3?

I have a sqlite3 query like:

SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%a%';

This would select all of the words where 'a' does not occur in the word. This I can get to work perfectly. The problem is if I want to further restrict the results to not include 'b' anywhere in the word. I am picturing something like this.

SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT IN ('%a%', '%b%', '%z%');

which this obviously does not work, but this is the idea. Just adding an AND clause is what I'm trying to avoid:

SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%a%' AND NOT LIKE '%b%';

If this is the only option then I will have to work with that, but I was hoping for something else.

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The answer is


If you have any problems with the "not like" query, Consider that you may have a null in the database. In this case, Use:

IFNULL(word, '') NOT LIKE '%something%'

The query you are after will be

SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%a%' AND word NOT LIKE '%b%'

I'm not sure why you're avoiding the AND clause. It is the simplest solution.

Otherwise, you would need to do an INTERSECT of multiple queries:

SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%a%'
INTERSECT
SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%b%'
INTERSECT
SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%c%';

Alternatively, you can use a regular expression if your version of SQL supports it.


this is a select command

   FROM
    user
WHERE
    application_key = 'dsfdsfdjsfdsf'
        AND email NOT LIKE '%applozic.com'
        AND email NOT LIKE '%gmail.com'
        AND email NOT LIKE '%kommunicate.io';

this update command

 UPDATE user
    SET email = null
    WHERE application_key='dsfdsfdjsfdsf' and  email not like '%applozic.com' 
    and email not like '%gmail.com'  and email not like '%kommunicate.io';

You missed the second statement: 1) NOT LIKE A, AND 2) NOT LIKE B

SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%a%' AND word NOT LIKE '%b%'

SELECT word FROM table WHERE word NOT LIKE '%a%' 
AND word NOT LIKE '%b%' 
AND word NOT LIKE '%c%';