Question

Hi im trying to use Sql within MySql to sort some values and this is what I have:

Select from my table the rows where the value in column status equals online and the value in column tags equals museum, order them by name and in ascending order.

SELECT *
  FROM tech
 WHERE `STATUS` = 'online'
   AND `TAGS` = 'museum'
ORDER BY NAME ASC

However what I need is this:

Select from my table the rows where the value in column status equals online and there is this value in column tags that equals museum, order them by name and in ascending order.

What I means is that right now in my DB my column tags only has one value per row, not very useful for using as tags. I want to change it so that the value in it would instead of “museum” be “museum 3d programming” and SQL check for a particular “word” in that string value.

Can it be done?

Answer 1

Try

SELECT *
  FROM tech
 WHERE `STATUS` = 'online'
   AND `TAGS` like '%museum%'
ORDER BY NAME ASC