Wildcards in WHERE Clauses

This is just a very short post regarding the use of wildcards in a WHERE Clause

It is possible that the first WHERE clause below can use an Index seek

Where LastName like ‘[a-z]%ent’ can use an index

This second statement will not be able to use a seek and will result in a scan

WHERE LastName like ‘%ent’

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