On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:10:02AM +0200, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> Can I index just a smaller number of characters from a field even though the
> field has more?
> Will this make MySQL to index that field faster?
Good Day Octavian,
You can index part of a column with the syntax
INDEX index_name (col_name(length))
Doing this requires less space for storing the index and should make
index generation/manipulation faster.
Please see http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Indexes.html
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