SQL - Find complete word in text

Question

I have a text column in one of my tables in a MySql DB. i want to get all the records that have a specific word in the text column. for example:

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Answer 1

You may want to look into using full text indexing depending on the amount of data you are using. Otherwise, you can use REGEXP to specific a regular expression to search for the word. You should see this question (and answer) for a way of using REGEXP to find words.