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

You can try this perverted way:

SELECT 
(LENGTH(field) - LENGTH(REPLACE(field, 'word', ''))) / LENGTH('word') AS `count`
ORDER BY `count` DESC

• This query can be very slow
• It looks pretty ugly
• REPLACE() is case-sensitive