Re: Large Like Queries

2002-12-17 Thread Brent Baisley
Have you thought about creating a fulltext index? Then you can search on any word in a field. MySQL 4 has a lot more options for fulltext search, but you can still do it in 3. On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 04:25 PM, Chris Stark wrote: SELECT my_id FROM my_table WHERE my_value LIKE '%ABCDEFG%

Re: Large Like Queries

2002-12-16 Thread Stefan Hinz, iConnect \(Berlin\)
Chris, > SELECT my_id FROM my_table WHERE my_value LIKE '%ABCDEFG%' LIMIT 50; > I know that in a query such as this, mysql does not utilize indexing, so I > was just curious how some others have attempted to speed up this kind of > thing up Maybe this answer won't help too much, but I experie