SQL function to get count of how many times string appears in column?

Question

Is there a function for MySQL that will count the number of times a string occurs in another string or column? Basically I want:

SELECT
    SUB_COUNT(\'my wo         


        

Answer 1

Depends what you mean by "string occurs" - as a substring or as full value?

Full value case:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM my_table WHERE my_column = 'my word';

Substring case:

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM my_table WHERE my_column LIKE '%my word%';