Question

I have a MySQL query

select query from HR_Health_Logs where query REGEXP 'CPU|MAC|PC|abacus|calculator|laptop|mainframe|microcomputer|minicomputer|machine';

Except that the regex is much longer, and contains many synonyms and misspellings.

I need to cut this short and have a table with all the synonyms and misspellings, so that I can avoid this very long query. So I’m looking for something like

select query from HR_Health_Logs where query REGEXP '**HAVE A TABLE WITH ALL MY SYNONYMS AND MISSPELLINGS SEARCHED HERE**';

Answer 1

SELECT  query
FROM    HR_Health_Logs l, synonym s
WHERE   l.query = s.synonym