MySQL join query using like?

Question

I have been trying to get this working for quite a while now but it just doesn\'t seem to work, maybe it is is not even possible, what i am wanting to do is to perform a MyS

Answer 1

SELECT p.products_id, pd.products_name, p.products_model
FROM products_description pd
JOIN products p ON p.products_id = pd.products_id
WHERE pd.products_name LIKE CONCAT( '%', p.products_model, '%' )
LIMIT 0 , 100

First off you have to restrict your request by (p.products_id = pd.products_id) and LIMIT. And look what time it took. After that you can go and make comparison with (WHERE). If you gonna compare directly within JOIN you will put down your db if there are at list 20 thousands items. Beware.)