> I have a table that has a few short text fields [text(4000), text(1000)] > I would like to index. Do you think it is a good idea to index them > "simply", or is it better if I create auxilary fields which hold the MD5 > for the text fields and index those? Would that be faster?
Try 'Fulltext' indexes. However, they will only work if you are using myiasm tables. They do not work on innodb tables. Instead of using 'LIKE', you should use 'MATCH' to take advantage of these indexes. http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Search.html -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Ullrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp key: http://johannes.homepc.org/PGPKEYS contact: http://johannes.homepc.org/contact.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------- There are two kinds of system administrators: The first kind solves problems with little shell scripts. The second kind are the problem. ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
