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To get the equivalent with LIKE, youd have had to use % wildcards at the end

mysql> mysql> SELECT 'abcdef' LIKE 'abc%'; +----------------------+ | 'abcdef' LIKE 'abc%' | +----------------------+ |                    1 | +----------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql>