Order by Maximum condition match

Question

Please help me to create a select query which contains 10 \'where\' clause and the order should be like that: the results should be displayed in order of most keywords(where

Answer 1

There are many options/answers possible. Best answer depends on size of the data, non-functional requirements, etc.

That said, what I would do is something like this (easy to read / debug):

  Select * from 
    (Select *, iif(condition1 = bla, 1, 0) as match1, ..... , match1+match2...+match10 as totalmatchscore from sourcetable
    where 
      condition1 = bla or
      condition2 = bla2
      ....) as helperquery
    order by helperquery.totalmatchscore desc