Select a portion from a MySQL Blob Field

Question

I have a table containing lots of data and one of them is a blob. I some times needs to look into this blob for data using PHP.

I do:

select `desc` f         


        

Answer 1

Something like the following should do what you need:

SELECT
    SUBSTR(description, INSTR(description, 'Nam rhoncus'), LENGTH('Nam rhoncus')) matchStr
FROM
    testTable
WHERE
    description like '%Nam rhoncus%'
;