John Mistler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this is an elementary question, but I am getting two sets of > instructions from different MySQL manuals about setting an index on a prefix > of a column of a table. One says to use: > > KEY indexName (colName(length)) > > and the other says to use > > INDEX indexName (colName(length)) > > Are both all right? Any light shed on indexing columns would be much > appreciated. >
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