SQL fetch results by concatenating words in column

Question

I have column store_name (varchar). In that column I have entries like prime sport, best buy... with a space. But when user typed concatenated string like primesport without space I need to show result prime sport. how can I achieve this? Please help me

Answer 1

SELECT *
FROM TABLE
WHERE replace(store_name, ' ', '') LIKE '%'+@SEARCH+'%' OR  STORE_NAME LIKE '%'+@SEARCH +'%'

Answer 2

Well, I don't have much idea, and even I am searching for it. But may be what I know works for you, You can achieve this by performing different type of string operations:

Mike can be Myke or Myce or Mikke or so on.
Cat an be Kat or katt or catt or so on.

For this you should write a function to generate number of possible strings and then form a SQL Query using all these, and query the database.

A similar kind of search in known as Soundex Search from Oracle and Soundex Search from Microsoft. Have a look of it. this may work.

And overall make use of functions like upper and lower.

Answer 3

Have you tried using replace()

You can replace the white space in the query then use like

SELECT * FROM table WHERE replace(store_name, ' ', '') LIKE '%primesport%'

It will work for entries like 'prime soft' querying with 'primesoft'

Or you can use regex.