SQL LIKE wildcard space character

Question

let\'s say I have a string in which the words are separated by 1 or more spaces and I want to use that string in and SQL LIKE condition. How do I make my SQL and tell it to

Answer 1

you can't do this using LIKE but what you can do, if you know this condition can exist in your data, is as you're inserting the data into the table, use regular expression matching to detect it up front and set a flag in a different column created for this purpose.