How would I order a table by the number of matching params in the where clause of an sql statement?
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I'm writing sql to search a database by a number of parameters. How would I go about ordering the result set by the items that match the most parameters in the where clause. For example:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE username = 'eitan' OR email = '[email protected]' OR company = 'eitan'
Username | email | company
1) eitan | [email protected] | blah
2) eitan | [email protected] | eitan
3) eitan | [email protected] | blah
should be ordered like:
2, 3, 1.
Thanks. (ps the query isn't that easy, has a lot of joins and a lot of OR's in the WHERE)
Eitan
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