Something I didn't realize about full text searches, but they can be used with multi-table views! Maybe I'm the last one on the planet to discover this, but I think this is really neat.

For example, I can create a view with all the fulltext index column of the customer table (name, address, customer_profile), and link it to the sales_summary table. Now I can search on our biggest customers this month who live in Atlanta and like "fly fishing" so we can have a fishing derby. It is fast too. I wonder why I didn't think of this before?

Am I the last one to discover this? Hmm. Anyway I thought I'd post it as a tip in case someone else wasn't aware of it. Enjoy. :-)

Mike
(MySQL 5.1)


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