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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* 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
- Dathan Vance Pattishall
- Sr. Programmer and mySQL DBA for FriendFinder Inc.
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