Syntax error MySQL query to display only the records that contains single word?

MySQL query to display only the records that contains single word?

For this, you can filter records on the basis of LIKE. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable
(
   Name varchar(50)
);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.50 sec)

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable values('John Smith');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.12 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('John');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('Adam Smith');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('Carol');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)
mysql> insert into DemoTable values('David Miller');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.10 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select *from DemoTable;

This will produce the following output −

+--------------+
| Name         |
+--------------+
| John Smith   |
| John         |
| Adam Smith   |
| Carol        |
| David Miller |
+--------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to display records containing a single word. NOT LIKE is used here to exclude records with more than one word i.e. NOT LIKE '% %' −

mysql> select *from DemoTable where Name not like '% %';

This will produce the following output −

+-------+
| Name  |
+-------+
| John  |
| Carol |
+-------+
2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
Updated on: 2019-10-04T07:15:37+05:30

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