Compare Two Strings in MySQL

Question

My current query (doesn\'t work)

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE
    \'http://www.longurl.com/some/string\' like \'%\' . url . \'%\'

table

Answer 1

If what you need is getting all URLs containing longurl.com then try using:

SELECT url
FROM table
WHERE
url like '%longurl.com%'

It should work.