Re: Searching a large table

2006-05-05 Thread sheeri kritzer
well, you'd still have to use limit and offset with your search table would you store a different table for each unique query? That sounds like a lot of [temporary?] tables. are you doing ore than 3-4 table joins on ths one fulltext search query? If not, it's probably more work. If your q

Re: Searching a large table

2006-05-05 Thread Steve
Hi Sheeri: Yes, you are misunderstanding my question. I certainly know how to limit my resultset to certain rows. I'm asking more about the effiencency of searching large volumes of data. Is making a search table like vBulletin does a good mechanism to avoid resource contention on the main tabl

Re: Searching a large table

2006-05-05 Thread sheeri kritzer
Sounds like you want LIMIT and OFFSET -- everything after my name and before your post is copied from the doc at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/select.html (or am I misunderstanding your question?) -Sheeri The LIMIT clause can be used to constrain the number of rows returned by the SEL

Searching a large table

2006-05-05 Thread Steve
All: I am developing a search engine and using MySQL as the backend database management system. Under normal circumstances, when users search through large volumes of records on a search engine site, the results are broken down into pages. When a user clicks on the 'Next' link, the system will r