Count occurrences of a word in a row in MySQL

Question

I\'m making a search function for my website, which finds relevant results from a database. I\'m looking for a way to count occurrences of a word, but I need to ensure that

Answer 1

This is not the sort of thing that relational databases are very good at, unless you can use fulltext indexing, and you have already stated that you cannot, since you're using InnoDB. I'd suggest selecting your relevant rows and doing the word count in your application code.