odbc select ..like ?

Hi, , I spent long time but it does not work :
PreparedStatement getSearchStmt;
String getchilds = "select * from MP5_CONCEPT_DEPENDENCIES where PARENT_ID=?";
getSearchStmt.setString(1,"'% + searchstring + %'");

But it does not return nothing, I don't know if what I am doing is correct or not.
Thanks

May be you should write your select statement like:

"SELECT * from EMPLOYEE WHERE FIRST_NAME LIKE 'A%'

This worked under MS SQL, ORACLE and Sybase.

The following should work:

String getchilds = "select * from MP5_CONCEPT_DEPENDENCIES where PARENT_ID LIKE ?";
getSearchStmt.setString(1, "'%" + searchstring + "%'");