Count the number of occurrences of a string in a VARCHAR field?

Question

I have a table like this:

TITLE          |   DESCRIPTION
------------------------------------------------
test1          |   value blah blah value
test2              


        

Answer 1

A little bit simpler and more effective variation of @yannis solution:

SELECT 
    title,
    description,    
    CHAR_LENGTH(description) - CHAR_LENGTH( REPLACE ( description, 'value', '1234') ) 
        AS `count`    
FROM 
The difference is that I replace the "value" string with a 1-char shorter string ("1234" in this case). This way you don't need to divide and round to get an integer value.
Generalized version (works for every needle string):
SET @needle = 'value';
SELECT 
    description,    
    CHAR_LENGTH(description) - CHAR_LENGTH(REPLACE(description, @needle, SPACE(LENGTH(@needle)-1))) 
        AS `count`    
FROM 

                                                        

              
                
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