Question

I have these two tables and I would like to be able to search on brand.NAME and product.NAME as one string using LIKE. I have been unsuccessful using CONCAT from this in combination with JOINS so this is above my paygrade.

Is this even possible?

Wanted behavior

On search “NIKE sh”

Results:

NIKE Shoes
NIKE shirts

product

ID   | NAME   | brandID |
1    | Shoes  | 1       |
2    | pants  | 2       | 
3    | shorts | 3       |
4    | shirts | 1       | 
5    | socks  | 2       |

brand

ID   | NAME    |
1    | NIKE    |
2    | Adidas  |
3    | Hummel  | 

Answer 1

You have to JOIN the two tables and then run the LIKE. One caveat: if you do a straight CONCAT, “Nike Shoes” will never match, because what you will have will be “NikeShoes”.

SELECT … FROM Product JOIN Brand ON (Product.BrandId = Brand.Id) WHERE CONCAT(Product.name, ‘ ‘, Brand.name) LIKE ‘%ike Sho%’;

Edit: that said, I agree with the other posters – it would be much more advantageous to look into Brands and Products separately. Unless you have a “google like” search where the user may enter whatever he fancies — but in that case I’d try to have the UI revised.