Hello:
I want to provide free text searching on my database across numerous fields.
The question is, is it better to use a freetext field, or pattern matching and
or-ing the fields I want to search.
What scares me off of Freetext is that I only have about 40 records, they all
relate to a
- Dathan Vance Pattishall
- Sr. Programmer and mySQL DBA for FriendFinder Inc.
- http://friendfinder.com/go/p40688
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* Mike
I want to provide free text searching on my database across
numerous fields. The question is, is it better to use a freetext
field, or pattern matching and or-ing the fields I want to search.
What scares me off of Freetext is that I only have about 40
records, they all relate to a
Roger:
Thank you for your reply, it is right on the money. I will try pattern
matching first and see how that works. I don't mind the extra
programming, and I don't expect our user base to grow significantly.
Thanks again
Mike
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