Suppose I have a table with following records value text company/about about Us company company company/contactus company contact I have a very simple query in sql server as below. I am having problem with the 'or' condition. In below query, I am trying to find text for value 'company/about'. If it is not found, then only I want to run the other side of 'or'. The below query returns two records as below value text company/about about Us company company Query select * from tbl where value='company/about' or value=substring('company/about',0,charindex('/','company/about')) How can I modify the query so the result set looks like value text company/about about Us