<posted & mailed> Gavin Towey wrote:
> Hi Pol, > > MySQL support FULLTEXT indexes, and natural language searches, including > Boolean conditions. This may help you; however, you will have to adjust > the default behavior of the index, but changing server settings. By > default there is a minimum word length which you will have to adjust, and > a list of stopwords (words to ignore.) Both of these will prevent you > from indexing each and every word, and even still words that show up in > most or all records will be ignored (and I don't know if you can change > that behavior.) The alternative, is using unindexed lookups, which would > be very slow for any non-trivial application. > Thank you for you references. I am not an expert, so i hope to find a smart interface to mysql to set up the server. > > In all honesty, if this really is a "personal" application, you may be > better off using another, simpler method. What are your suggestions? Thank you --Pol -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
