The parenthesis are OK. The query might take a long time to run with 3 LIKE
statements.
>>Backticks, single quotes, or nothing at all makes no difference. I
>>believe the parsing error is due to my parentheses or AND/OR structure.
>>Any thoughts on that?
>>
>>
>>
>>On Apr 23, 2004, at 8:32 AM, John W. Holmes wrote:
>>
>>> From: "Brian Dunning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>
>>>> I STFW and RTFM and I still can't figure out why this returns a 1064
>>>> parse error:
>>>>
>>>> SELECT * FROM 'my_table' WHERE ('field_1' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR
>>>> 'field_2' LIKE '%$keyword%' OR 'field_3' LIKE '%$keyword%') AND
>>>> 'status' = 'active';
