# make ranking on search result

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**Category:** Other MySQL® Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/make-ranking-on-search-result/804 "2008-06-18T01:35:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![larvus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@larvus](https://forums.percona.com/u/larvus)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/make-ranking-on-search-result/804/1 "2008-06-18T01:35:45Z")

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i hv a product table chemicals(prodname,prodcat,proddesc)

my query is

SELECT prodname FROM bw\_product WHERE

prodname like ‘%sodium chloride%’

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		 OR

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prodcateg like ‘%sodium chloride%’

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		 OR 

```

proddesc like ‘%sodium chloride%’

order by prodname

“sodium chloride” is searched ,  
I am getting a very large number of results and the product “sodium chloride” is nowhere near the top.  
The search needs to be configured so that exact (or nearly exact) “prodname” appear at the top,exact (or nearly exact) “prodcateg” appear at the next level and the lowest “ranked” results (ones at bottom) should be ones that had a search hit in the “proddesc” field.

how can i possible these ? pls give the correct query

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**Author:** ![debug](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forums.percona.com/debug/32/772_2.png) [@debug](https://forums.percona.com/u/debug)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/make-ranking-on-search-result/804/2 "2008-06-19T01:48:49Z")

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Maybe try this:

SELECT prodname,1 as id FROM bw\_product WHERE prodname like ‘%sodium chloride%’

UNION  
SELECT prodcateg,2 as id FROM bw\_product WHERE like ‘%sodium chloride%’

UNION  
SELECT proddesc,3 as id FROM bw\_product WHERE like ‘%sodium chloride%’

order by id

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**Author:** ![larvus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/cab0a1/32.png) [@larvus](https://forums.percona.com/u/larvus)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2008, 8:34am UTC](https://forums.percona.com/t/make-ranking-on-search-result/804/3 "2008-06-21T08:34:54Z")

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thanks u its working