select problem

[miguel lisboa]

i have a field that has a sentence

i want to query the database to find all records with exactly that word within any sentence in that column

for example 1 wanna find the word "its"

the sentence:

"today its gonna rain"

my sql:

select * from table x where column y like '%its%'

this wont work

what am i doing wrong?

thanks in advance

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Sounds OK to me (given that you're using proper syntax for the table and column names.) What flavor of "this won't work" are we talking about (i.e., what happens when you do it?)

[miguel lisboa]

i expressed myself incorrectly

imagine i'm looking for the word "ra"

if in the same column (in any other entry) i have the word "rain", or "ramses", i get all of them instead of only getting the exact word "ra", for which i searched...

hope i made myself clear

[Muhammad Saifuddin]

is there any words before "rain" and "ramses" ?

[miguel lisboa]

depends: may be yes and may be no - one does not know whaat users input...

[Somnath Mallick]

miguel lisboa wrote:select * from table x where column y like '%its%'

I think this should work. I tried with some of my tables and they gave the results fine! What problems are you facing when you run this query?