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

In SQL SERVER, this is the answer

Declare @t table(TITLE VARCHAR(100), DESCRIPTION VARCHAR(100))

INSERT INTO @t SELECT 'test1', 'value blah blah value' 
INSERT INTO @t SELECT 'test2','value test' 
INSERT INTO @t SELECT 'test3','test test test' 
INSERT INTO @t SELECT 'test4','valuevaluevaluevaluevalue' 


SELECT TITLE,DESCRIPTION,Count = (LEN(DESCRIPTION) - LEN(REPLACE(DESCRIPTION, 'value', '')))/LEN('value') 

FROM @t

Result

TITLE   DESCRIPTION               Count
test1   value blah blah value        2
test2   value test                   1
test3   test test test               0
test4   valuevaluevaluevaluevalue    5

I don't have MySQL install, but goggled to find the Equivalent of LEN is LENGTH while REPLACE is same.

So the equivalent query in MySql should be

SELECT TITLE,DESCRIPTION, (LENGTH(DESCRIPTION) - LENGTH(REPLACE(DESCRIPTION, 'value', '')))/LENGTH('value') AS Count
FROM 

Please let me know if it worked for you in MySql also.