rather than testing for equality, the like operator uses one or more wildcard characters to test for pattern match.
select customer_num, customer_name, street
from customer
where street like '%Central%';
Another wildcard symbol in MySQL is underscore(_) which represents any individual character. For example, "T_m" represents the letter "T" followed by any single character, followed by the letter "m", and would retrieve rows that include the words Tim, Tom, or T3m.