How to count the occurrence of specific word inside a string in sql server 2008?


Hi. Suppose, I have for example this string field in my sql database  "never say never"  and I want to count how many times "never" appear in the string in sql server 2008, so how I can check that.

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Asked by:- LuneAgile
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: 3113 At:- 8/7/2018 2:30:01 PM
SQL count the occurrence of specific word



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profileImage Answered by:- vikas_jk

Here is the working example

    Declare @string VARCHAR(MAX) ='Never say Never'
	DECLARE @tosearch VARCHAR(MAX)='Never'  
      
    SELECT (DATALENGTH(@string)-DATALENGTH(REPLACE(@string,@tosearch,'')))/DATALENGTH(@tosearch)  
    AS OccurrenceCount

count-occurence-of-string-sql-min.png

Above is the sample output.
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At:- 8/8/2018 4:06:18 PM


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profileImage Answered by:- LuneAgile

Thanks so much Vilas.
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At:- 8/8/2018 5:57:37 PM


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