How do I retrieve records using substrings

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select colC,colWord ....

statement should return

colC | colWord
-----------------------------------------------
tomorrow is wednesday |wednesday
I will be there |there
this is an example |example

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The filter to use is my problem

Posted 10-Jul-17 3:55am

kwaku Emma

Updated 10-Jul-17 3:59am

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Wendelius 10-Jul-17 11:42am

What should happen if the sentence contains two or more of the words?

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Andy Lanng · Answer 1 · 2017-07-10T03:59:00

Solution 1

if the data is small enough then just use a like comparison in the join:

SQL

Select * from Table_A a
inner join Table_B b on a.colC like '%'+b.colWord+'%'

This will be terrible for large data!

If you need a query for large data there are solutions

Posted 10-Jul-17 3:59am

Andy Lanng