check the length of the phrase if it is <=3 use B) (it will be damn slow if you have great number of rows in 'news' table and/or 'content' is big most of the times)
if it is > 3 use A)
B.R. Ognyan
Monty wrote:
Hi,
My head is swimming with lots of info gleaned from various newsgroups about using fulltext indexes in MySQL, but, I'm still not sure what the best solution would be for what I want to do. I'm concerned about the 3-char minimum and not being able to search on partial words (my version of MySQL doesn't support boolean fulltext searches).
I have a simple News table that is structured like this:
CREATE TABLE `news` ( `id` int(7) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, `author` varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', `headline` varchar(60) NOT NULL default '', `content` text NOT NULL, `url` text NOT NULL, UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`), ) TYPE=MyISAM;
I want searches for News to be on the author, headline and content fields. What is the best way to index and search this?
A) Create a combined fulltext index: FULLTEXT (author,headline,content) -- and do searches using MATCH() and AGAINST().
B) Create a fulltext index only for the content field and use this kind of select: SELECT * FROM db WHERE author LIKE "%phrase%" OR headline LIKE "%phrase%" OR MATCH(content) AGAINST(phrase);
C) None of the above ... is there a better way?
Thanks a lot for any input or feedback! I'm completely lost!
Monty
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