Question

I want to query a record containing a phrase.

for example: I want the search to return the record: ‘The needle in the haystack’ with the search phrase ‘needle haystack’

The query will work if I just have ‘needle’ or just ‘haystack’ using like% in the where clause.

Is there a way to search with the phrase ‘needle haystack’?

Answer 1

SELECT * FROM table WHERE phrase LIKE '%needle%' AND phrase LIKE '%haystack%'

Replace phrase with LOWER(phrase) if you want the search to be case-insensitive (depends on the DB engine and other things, though).