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KarSho
KarSho

Reputation: 5746

string search in MySQL Query

My MySQL field having skills field(string) like,

1)php,mysql
2)java
3)java,c

I need to select the column with skills field condition. Condition may be Like,

skills="php"    // o/p => 1st column
or
skills = "mysql,c"   // o/p => 1st and 3rd column

How I can write Query.? Here im using PHP.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2555

Answers (2)

Matthew
Matthew

Reputation: 10444

Use a procedure like this one:

Split comma separated values from one column to 2 rows in the results. MySQL

To split your csv skills field into a temp table with rows for each skill

Then do the same thing with your search parameters (which I assume is also csv string passed in)

Then simply apply a JOIN over the two results and get the DISTICT Id.

there are many solutions for splitting a comma separated string in MySQL (though it's not particularly good at this task)... if you can't properly normalize the data then you can't very well complain about inefficient query routines.

Upvotes: 1

peterm
peterm

Reputation: 92845

One way to do it

SELECT *
  FROM table1
 WHERE skills LIKE '%mysql%' 
    OR skills LIKE '%c%'

SQLFiddle

It would be much easier if you'd normalized your data

Upvotes: 3

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