Question

I have an SQL search function built up as following:

SELECT
    *
FROM
    Table
WHERE
    Question LIKE @SearchString
    OR Answer LIKE @SearchString
    OR Keywords LIKE @SearchString

And I want to order them by relevance, meaning the results where Keywords LIKE @SearchString on top, followed by Answer LIKE @SearchString and then Question LIKE @SearchString. But I can’t seem to figure out how despite several googling efforts.

I found somewhere that

ORDER BY 
    CASE 
        WHEN CHARINDEX(FAQ_FAQ.Keywords, @SearchString, 1) > 0 THEN 0
    ELSE 1
END ASC,

Might work, but apparently it doesn’t.

Thx in advance

Answer 1

SELECT
    *
FROM
    Table
WHERE
    Keywords LIKE @SearchString
    OR Answer LIKE @SearchString
    OR Question LIKE @SearchString
ORDER BY
    CASE WHEN Keywords LIKE @SearchString THEN 0
         WHEN Answer LIKE @SearchString THEN 1
         ELSE 2
    END