Question

I am passing in a @Description parameter to a stored procedure (VARCHAR). The parameter could be something like the book. I want to return records where the column contains both the and book.

These records would return:

• the green book
• the huge orange book

I have a split function to split the @Description parameter by the space, but I have no idea how to include this in the where clause … I also need to ignore the @Description parameter when it is NULL.

Disclaimer: I apologize if this was previously asked … I searched
for a while and didn’t find anything.

Answer 1

Well, if you want to have a result that have all the words on your parameter, you can do something like this:

SELECT A.YourFields
FROM YourTable A
INNER JOIN (SELECT *, COUNT(*) OVER() Total FROM dbo.Split(@Description)) B
ON A.YourField LIKE '%' + B.Data + '%'
GROUP BY A.YourFields
HAVING COUNT(*) = MAX(B.Total)