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

You can use REGEXP and the [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] word boundary markers:

SELECT
    *
FROM
    `table`
WHERE
    company REGEXP '[[:<:]]Demo[[:>:]]';

Another Solution

SELECT
    *
FROM
    `table`
WHERE
    company REGEXP '(^|[[:space:]])Demo([[:space:]]|$)';

SQL Fiddle Demo