Implementing full text searching on an existing, production database.

2004-07-12 Thread Stuart Grimshaw
Hi All, I'm currently engaged in a project to implement full text searching of our product database. The current implementation was written for an older version of MySQL and doesn't implement BOOLEAN MODE. Currently, the full text search is against a de-normalised table from fields icluding the

Re: Implementing full text searching on an existing, production database.

2004-07-12 Thread Justin Swanhart
Keep in mind that if you create an index on multiple fields, then all of those fields must be searched at once. You can't index product_name, product_desc and product_category for instance, then only search on the product_name field using MATCHES. If you want to bypass this (and many other