At 10:10 +0200 1/14/03, 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?
For BLOB and TEXT columns, you *must* in fact index just a certain number of bytes (maximum of 255 bytes). You cannot index BLOB or TEXT columns without specifying a prefix length.
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