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

Something like LIKE or REGEXP will not scale (unless it's a leftmost prefix match).

Consider instead using a fulltext index for what you want to do.

select count(*) from yourtable where match(title, body) against ('some_word');