Search string by exact word in Mysql

Question

I have a system that searches for company. I want that when a user searches for \"Demo\", all records that have \"Demo\" will be returned, like \"The Demo\", \"Demo Inc.\",

Answer 1

A shot in the dark as per my comment. If you're always going to get an exact match criteria. would it not be best to perform a standard select query?

SELECT * FROM table WHERE company='The Demo'

Or for practical:

   $Search = $_GET['company'];
   SELECT * FROM table WHERE company='$Search'

Obviously use best practices when working with user input & Queries.

The results drawn will be either the rows found to have The Demo, the demo would be returned or nothing.

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If you do not always have an exact match. You could again, use $_GET with an appended value ie $_GET['Exact'] & have two different functions:

function ExactMatch ($DB,$Company){
  /* 
    Query to get exact match as exampled 
  */

}
function NotExact($DB,$Company){
  /*
   Query using LIKE syntax 
  */
}

and validate:

if (isset($_GET['Exact'])){
  if ($_GET['Exact'] === 1){
    ExactMatch($DB,$_GET['Company']);
  }else{
    NotExact($DB,$_GET['Company'])
  }
}

Also, a possible read on DBA.stackexchange:

https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/39693/how-to-speed-up-queries-on-a-large-220-million-rows-table-9-gig-data