Get all employee detail from employees table whose "First_name" start with any single character between 'a-p'

Question

SELECT
    *
FROM
    employees
WHERE
    first_name LIKE 'A%'
    OR first_name LIKE 'B%'
    OR first_name LIKE 'C%'
    OR first_name LIKE 'D%'
ORDER BY
    first_name;

is there any new way to rewrite the SQL Query to find the first_name starting from A to P

Answer 1

Use regexp_like:

select *
from employees
where regexp_like(first_name, '^[a-p]', 'i')

The regex breakdown:

• ^ means "start of text"
• [a-p] means "any character in the range à to p inclusive"
• The i flag means "ignore case"