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I think there was a slight issue with my diff. There was also a bug related to the return value. I have fixed the code and just posted the entire IsBotNameAvailable function above.

As for why I used LIKE: I was just using the same method used that was already there to check against the vwBotCharacterMobs table. Just trying to keep the code consistant, and it was really easy to just copy and paste what was there. You are quite right c0ncrete what you posted is much cleaner. I will look at cleaning the code up a bit when I get some time.

bool Bot::IsBotNameAvailable(std::string* errorMessage) {
	bool Result1 = false;
	bool Result2 = false;

	if(this->GetCleanName()) {
		char* Query = 0;
		char TempErrorMessageBuffer[MYSQL_ERRMSG_SIZE];
		MYSQL_RES* DatasetResult;
		MYSQL_ROW DataRow;

		if(!database.RunQuery(Query, MakeAnyLenString(&Query, "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM vwBotCharacterMobs WHERE name LIKE '%s'", this->GetCleanName()), TempErrorMessageBuffer, &DatasetResult)) {
			*errorMessage = std::string(TempErrorMessageBuffer);
		}
		else {
			uint32 ExistingNameCount = 0;

			while(DataRow = mysql_fetch_row(DatasetResult)) {
				ExistingNameCount = atoi(DataRow[0]);
				break;
			}

			if(ExistingNameCount == 0)
				Result1 = true;

			mysql_free_result(DatasetResult);



			if(!database.RunQuery(Query, MakeAnyLenString(&Query, "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM character_ WHERE name LIKE '%s'", this->GetCleanName()), TempErrorMessageBuffer, &DatasetResult)) {
				*errorMessage = std::string(TempErrorMessageBuffer);
			}
			else {
				uint32 ExistingNameCount = 0;

				while(DataRow = mysql_fetch_row(DatasetResult)) {
					ExistingNameCount = atoi(DataRow[0]);
					break;
				}

				if(ExistingNameCount == 0)
					Result2 = true;

				mysql_free_result(DatasetResult);

			}
		}
		safe_delete(Query);
	}

	if(Result1 && Result2)
		return true;
	else
		return false;
}