проблема и на рабочей станции и на w2k-хостинге, возможно, конверсия регистра где-то по пути играет? короче ахтунк :)
mysql> SELECT story FROM pn_test WHERE ( story LIKE '%спорт%' ) ;
+-------------+
| story |
+-------------+
| сооружения |
+-------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> \s
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mysql Ver 14.5 Distrib 4.1.3-beta, for portbld-freebsd5.2.1 (i386)
Connection id: 752
Current database: w3_giprovostokneft
Current user: w3@PETER
SSL: Not in use
Current pager: less
Using outfile: ''
Using delimiter: ;
Server version: 4.0.12-nt
Protocol version: 10
Connection: 192.168.0.17 via TCP/IP
Client characterset: utf8_general_ci
Server characterset: utf8_general_ci
TCP port: 3306
Uptime: 8 days 16 hours 36 min 47 sec
Threads: 55 Questions: 2040350 Slow queries: 0 Opens: 6246 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 39 Queries per second avg: 2.717
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mysql> \q
Bye
(10:29:54 <~>) 0 $ locale
LANG=ru_RU.CP1251
LC_CTYPE="ru_RU.CP1251"
LC_COLLATE="ru_RU.CP1251"
LC_TIME="ru_RU.CP1251"
LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU.CP1251"
LC_MONETARY="ru_RU.CP1251"
LC_MESSAGES=en_US.US-ASCII
LC_ALL=
таблица пустая, один столбик. куда рыть?