I am looking to build a query which can find values in string. For eg my column demo has following 2 rows:
1,2,121,43
343,21
My current query is:
select * from table where demo like '%21%'
However, this returns both the rows. I want to look for the exact match in the string.
Use FIND_IN_SET()
select * from table
where find_in_set(21, demo) > 0
But actually you should really change your table structure. Never store multiple values in one column!
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I have this column in a table which is comma delimited to separate the values.
Here's the sample data:
2003,2004
2003,2005
2003,2006
2003,2004,2005
2003,2007
I want to get all data that contains only 1 comma.
I've been playing around with the '%' and '_' wildcards, but I can't seem to get the results I need.
SELECT column FROM table WHERE column like '%_,%'
Replace the , with '' empty set then take the original length less the replaced length. if 1 then only 1 comma if > 1 then more than 1 comma.
The length difference would represent the number of commas.
Length(column) - length(Replace(column,',','')) as NumOfCommas
or
where Length(column) - length(Replace(column,',','')) =1
While this may solve the problem, I agree with what others have indicated. Storing multiple values in a single column in a RDBMS is asking for more trouble. Better to normalize the data and get it to at least 3rd Normal form!
You can also use find_in_set() method which searches a value in comma separated list, by picking the last value of column using substring_index we can then check result of find_in_set should be 2 so that its the second and last value from list
select *
from demo
where find_in_set(substring_index(data,',',-1),data) = 2
Demo
Maybe another solution is to use regular expression in your case it can look like this ^[0-9]{4},[0-9]{4}$ :
SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE ColName REGEXP '^[0-9]{4},[0-9]{4}$'
Or if you want all non comma one or more time :
SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE ColName REGEXP '^[^,]*,[^,]*$'
I have a MySQL table with a varchar filed that has many records like:
folder/subfolder_1/file_xpto
folder/subfolder_2/file_abc
folder/subfolder_3/file_123
folder/subfolder_4/file_xyz
I would like in a single query to remove the portion of the string "/subfolder_x" so in the end it will be:
folder/file_xpto
folder/file_abc
folder/file_123
folder/file_xyz
How can I achieve this?
Use substring_index to get the first and last substrings and concatenate them using concat_ws.
select concat_ws('/',substring_index(colname,'/',1),substring_index(colname,'/',-1))
from tablename
where colname like 'folder/%'
I am trying to write a Query to find if a string contains part of the value in Column (Not to confuse with the query to find if a column contains part of a string).
Say for example I have a column in a table with values
ABC,XYZ
If I give search string
ABCDEFG
then I want the row with ABC to be displayed.
If my search string is XYZDSDS then the row with value XYZ should be displayed
The answer would be "use LIKE".
See the documentation: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-comparison-functions.html
You can do WHERE 'string' LIKE CONCAT(column , '%')
Thus the query becomes:
select * from t1 where 'ABCDEFG' LIKE CONCAT(column1,'%');
If you need to match anywhere in the string:
select * from t1 where 'ABCDEFG' LIKE CONCAT('%',column1,'%');
Here you can see it working in a fiddle:
http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/d1596/4
Select * from table where #param like '%' + col + '%'
First, you appear to be storing lists of things in a column. This is the wrong approach to storing values in the database. You should have a junction table, with one row per entity and value -- that is, a separate row for ABC and XYZ in your example. SQL has a great data structure for storing lists. It is called a "table", not a "string".
If you are stuck with such a format and using MySQL, there is a function that can help:
where find_in_set('ABC', col)
MySQL treats a comma delimited string as a "set" and offers this function. However, this function cannot use indexes, so it is not particularly efficient. Did I mention that you should use a junction table instead?
I have a MySQL table column rubrics which contains string value '61,80,112,256'. So I try execute that query:
select * from table where 256 in (rubrics) and 61 in (rubrics)
And no result returns. Any suggestions?
Since your rubrics column is a comma separated list the IN operator will not work.
MySQL does have a function that can find a value in a string list so you should be able to use FIND_IN_SET():
select *
from yourtable
where find_in_set(61, rubrics)
or find_in_set(256, rubrics)
See SQL Fiddle with Demo
Something like WHERE rubrics LIKE '%,256,%' OR rubrics LIKE '256,%' OR rubrics LIKE '%,256'. Using parenthesis you can also filter on the 61, but the resulting query will be come messy. You'd better normalize your data, so you can use subqueries and joins using keys (the real deal).
(see also bluefeet's answer as FIND_IN_SET is a better approach)
Try this
select * from table where rubrics like '%'+'256,'+'%' and rubrics like '%'+'61,'+'%'
IN operator does not work with strings
use correct substring matching operator like LIKE or LOCATE
one advice - update your rubics column to begin and end with , character, that will make your LOCATE(",62,", rubics) operations unambiguous as opposed to LOCATE("62", rubics) which will match also 622 and 262 and other combinations. Locating ,62, wil fail if your rubics has value of 62,blah,foo,bar because it doesn't start with ,
I am using mysql database ...
I have a table with col name food_type
in this field all the food types are in comma separated.
Now my problem is that i want to get the search result from them.
For Example:
Data in food_type col is like BBQ,Fast Food,Desi,Seafood,Vegetarian,
And I want to search BBQ,Seafood. But it can't give me the accurate result .
i try to use like in my sql query but same result :-(
How can I achieve this .
You could even use find_in_set() function
select * from table
where find_in_set('bbq',field_name) and find_in_set('Seafood',field_name)
but, as already written, your table needs to be normalized.
You can try 2 LIKE queries:
select * from table where field like "bbq" and field like "seafood"