Question

I want to get all the records from the one table which contain at least one word from the input string. For example, input parameter=’Stack over flow‘:

select *
from sample
where  name like '%stack%'
    or name like '%over%'
    or name like '%flow%'

How do I search for records which contains ‘stack’ or ‘over’ or ‘flow’?

Answer 1

The code you gave should work. But don’t use it. It won’t be able to use any indexes, and so will likely be very slow. Look into a full text index and the CONTAINS keyword instead.