Search count of words within a string using SQL

Question

Database: Sql Server

I have table column named page_text which contains following value

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Answer 1

declare @search varchar(10) = 'I'

select len(replace(PageText, @search, @search + '#')) 
- len(PageText) as Count from YourTable 

Answer 2

SELECT (LEN(@Text) - LEN(REPLACE(@Text,@SearchString,''))/(Len(@SearchString))

Answer 3

based on this code: http://www.sql-server-helper.com/functions/count-character.aspx

you create a function:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[ufn_CountSpecificWords] ( @pInput VARCHAR(1000), @pWord VARCHAR(1000) )
RETURNS INT
BEGIN

RETURN (LEN(@pInput) - LEN(REPLACE(@pInput, ' ' + @pWord + ' ', '')))

END
GO

this however implies that you save your strings with a leading and trailing space and you replace any other separators like ',' and '.' with spaces.

and you need to refrase your question if you want the count of words or just the appeareance of a word.