Returns the position of the first occurrence of substring substr in string str, starting at position pos.
Returns 0 if substr is not in str.
POSITION(substr IN str) is a synonym for LOCATE(substr,str).
mysql>
mysql> SELECT LOCATE('bar', 'foobarbar', 5);
+-------------------------------+
| LOCATE('bar', 'foobarbar', 5) |
+-------------------------------+
| 7 |
+-------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>