Partial match between two MySQL tables

Question

Table 1 'titles' ID Title 1 Tommy Hilfiger men 1790790 black watch

Table 2 'product' Supplier_name 1790790

I need to find the rows in table 1 where the table 2 supplier name is somewhere in the table 1 title, in this example '1790790' should be an expected result.

This query loads for ages and never completes:

SELECT * FROM `titles` t1
INNER JOIN product t2 ON t2.supplier_name LIKE CONCAT('%', t1.title, '%');

Where did I go wrong with this query?

Answer 1

I think a LEFT JOIN is what you want here

SELECT * FROM `titles` t1
LEFT JOIN product t2 ON t2.supplier_name LIKE CONCAT('%', t1.title, '%');