store the two columns in an extra table. it would help you.
BUT, looking at the Full text indexing/searching part...it not up to snuff.
Currently, I'm using mysql's full text search support. I have a database of 3-5 million rows. Each row is unique, let's say a product. Each row has several columns, but the two I search on are title and description. I created a full text index on title and description. Title has approximately 100 characters, and description has 255 characters.
At the moment, mysql is taking 50 seconds plus to return results on simpledid you write it to mysql team?
one word searches. My dedicated server is a P4, 2.0 Gighz, 1.5 Gig RAM
RedHat Linux 7.3 platform, with nothing else running on it, i.e. another
server is handling HTTP requests. It is a dedicated mysql box. In addition,
I'm the only person making queries.
-g-
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