I'm trying to build a really basic search engine for a site I'm using - say I'm going to simplify this as much as I can.
Say I have a table with 2 columns: id, message Person wants to search for the term 'sql'. So, I'd do a simple search like: select id from tablename where message like '%sql%'; If there any way to determine exactly how many times 'sql' is matched in that search in each particular row, and then sort by the most matches, or am I going to have to write a script to do the sorting for me? Thanks! ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly