I have been through the docs, searched a variety of locations, and cannot find anything on how to resolve a query which I need to read: SELECT * FROM table WHERE keywords LIKE '%keywords_variable%' <dtml-sqltest> has 'op=like' and when set to 'type=string' produces the LIKE operation in the query, with single quotes, but I cannot get it to 'wrap' the keywords with the percent characters and THEN the single quotes to produce that which I have in the query above. Ideally what I need to produce would be the query to search through some text in several fields by the keyword_variable (IF any keywords are provided) AND/OR within a specific category of information. If I can get the syntax to solve the above situation I think I can get <dtml-sqlgroup> to sort out what information is provided and construct the query accordingly. Sorry for the length of this newbie question but I am stumped on this one. And, so ends my lurking status. Thanks! Allen