On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:21:40 -0800, Mike <akiany@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am new in this field and would appreciate it if someone points me to > the right direction. > > I have a website with lots of users and each have lots of data in > multiple tables. I want to create a search box where a user can search > between all their data for the match. I want to search system to > contain multiple words and be forgiving. How do I do it? Do I have to > create a flat text of every record in my tables and then run the search > > through them for every word entered? That doesn't sound right? It would > > exhaust my database with a few users... You probably want to look at tsearch2.