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In this chapter we have learned the power of widlcards when retrieving data from a database table. Widlcards make is easy to find matches without having to know the full string value needed to complete the retrieval. In addition, wildcards make it easy to find muliple matches without having to painstakingly list each possible match criteria.
in the next chapter we will look at an even more powerful and flexible pattern matching approach - [[Reqular Expressions in MySQLRegular Expression Searches|regular expressions]].
