Date: 11/08/07 (Web Development)    Keywords: database

Say you want to to see if a certain record is in a database...it would go like this, right:

SELECT * FROM People WHERE LastName='hogbreath'

But, what if you have it where a user types a name in, and you want to check to see if the name they type in exists in the database. But you don't know what they're going to type in. How would you write it then?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/447486.html