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...and then Thomas Spahni said... % % Hi, David Hi! % % On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, David T-G wrote: % % > % Are you sure that smallint is enough for your index? Do you really need to % > % > I've thought about that a bit, but don't know if there is a more 'right' ... % > smallint"). Do you suggest that perhaps I just go with int or bigint for % > my IDs, again for consistency but now across all of my work rather than % > just guaranteed within a database? % % I would suggest to use INT UNSIGNED. Primary keys are not re-used and with % SMALLINT you could easily run out of numbers. Fair enough. Damn the disk space; we'll use four bytes instead of two :-) % % > % index the full title? % > % > I think so... If the title is "Let Not the Wise Man Glory in his Wisdom" % > and I want to be able to use 'wisdom' as a keyword for my search, it % > needs to be indexed, right? % % ... that would be a query similar to: % % SELECT * FROM mydb WHERE musictitle LIKE '%wisdom%'; Hmmm... That makes sense. % % and this will not use the index at all. You have to set up a FULLTEXT % index on your titles or search LIKE 'let not%'. And, in fact, I could use '%wise%glory%', right? But what about searching for keywords 'wisdom' and 'glory'? If I list them in that order, no matter how I use %, I won't get the result. Should I use some ANDs in there? Would I want to do that with a fulltext anyway, and the fulltext just speeds things up? % % Thomas Spahni % -- % filter: sql, query TIA & HAND mysql query, :-D - -- David T-G * There is too much animal courage in (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * society and not sufficient moral courage. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mary Baker Eddy, "Science and Health" http://justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+L9meGb7uCXufRwARAqN8AKDe0QOO48quMrTWXyeup2aqH0ZCOQCgwnkI h0SurqJODmKtX72w7+1rBL8= =Ctof -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
