CREATE TABLE continents (
id INT AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL
);
INSERT INTO continents (name) VALUES
('Africa'),
('Antarctica'),
('The Asia'),
('The state of the Europe union'),
('North America'),
('South America'),
('Australia');
select * from continents
where name rlike 'the' collate utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci
and name rlike '^the' collate utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci;