Dale Hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a field in the table, call it 'stuff', and it contains a list
> of values that are comma separated. i.e. 'Books,DVDs,Video
> Tapes,CDs'
>
> I want to SELECT out all records that have an item. I know IN works
> the other way, so is there something that will get what I want like
> this:
>
> SELECT * FROM Inventory
> WHERE stuff CONTAINS 'Books'
> ORDER BY name
>
Take a look at FIND_IN_SET() function:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_functions.html
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