Question

I have a table homes which has country,city,continent fields.

When some searches for a home , if he types for example “rom” I want to return

• Rome (30)
• Romania (120)

How can I do that?

EDIT
Use the search form here http://www.holiday-rentals.co.uk/ to see what I mean

EDIT
This is what I have tried so far

SELECT DISTINCT COUNT(country),COUNT(city),COUNT(continent) FROM homes WHERE country LIKE '%rom%' OR city LIKE '%rom%' OR continent LIKE '%rom%';

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Enhancing Lieven’s answer:

    SELECT   'city' AS result_type
           , city
           , COUNT(*) AS cnt
    FROM     homes
    WHERE    city LIKE '%rom%'
    GROUP BY city
UNION ALL
    SELECT   'country' AS result_type
           , country
           , COUNT(*) AS cnt
    FROM     homes
    WHERE    country LIKE '%rom%'
    GROUP BY country
UNION ALL
    SELECT   'continent' AS result_type
           , continent
           , COUNT(*) AS cnt
    FROM     homes
    WHERE    continent LIKE '%rom%'
    GROUP BY continent