Question

Is there a way to create search based on number of words?

For example if I search for car and wheel it would create T-SQL search like

select * from table 
where
    (word is like @word1)
    and (word is like @word2)

where @word1 is car and @word2 is wheel.

It could be any number of words, therefore this should be dynamic.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this, @wordtable can dynamically contain all the words you want. and it will only find the rows from @table where all words exists:

declare @wordtable table(word varchar(20))
declare @table table(word varchar(500))

insert @wordtable values('car')
insert @wordtable values('wheel')

insert @table values('carwheel')
insert @table values('car')
insert @table values('wheel')
insert @table values('wheelcat')

select * from @table t
where not exists (select 1 from @wordtable where t.word not like '%' + word + '%')

“Contains” would proberly still be better. But this is a decent way of solving the problem.