Compare Two Strings in MySQL

Question

My current query (doesn\'t work)

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE
    \'http://www.longurl.com/some/string\' like \'%\' . url . \'%\'

table

Answer 1

The concatenation operator . does not exist in MySQL, you have to use the CONCAT() function instead:

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE 'http://www.longurl.com/some/string' LIKE CONCAT('%', url, '%');