I am trying to join my expenses table with like query to categorize them into defined categories. I am trying if my expenses table even have a mention of a full keyword from lookup table, it should categorize them. Example, it does not show ‘fine Esso brampton’ categorized as ‘Gas’. But the like join only works for exact match. Please suggest what’s the issue here:
SELECT expenses.Description, expenses.Amount, COALESCE(lookup.Category, 'Others') as Category
FROM expenses
LEFT join lookup ON lookup.Description LIKE CONCAT('%', expenses.Description,'%')
>Solution :
it seems to me or need to swap fields like
SELECT expenses.Description, expenses.Amount, COALESCE(lookup.Category, 'Others') as Category
FROM expenses
LEFT join lookup ON expenses.Description LIKE CONCAT('%', lookup.Description ,'%')