Re: indexing text

2004-06-12 Thread Johannes B. Ullrich
> I have a table that has a few short text fields [text(4000), text(1000)] > I would like to index. Do you think it is a good idea to index them > "simply", or is it better if I create auxilary fields which hold the MD5 > for the text fields and index those? Would that be faster? Try 'Fulltext

Re: indexing text

2004-06-11 Thread John Hicks
On Friday 11 June 2004 07:00 am, Fagyal, Csongor wrote: > Hi, > > I have a table that has a few short text fields > [text(4000), text(1000)] I would like to index. Do > you think it is a good idea to index them "simply", > or is it better if I create auxilary fields which > hold the MD5 for the tex

Re: indexing text

2004-06-11 Thread Pete McNeil
On Friday, June 11, 2004, 7:00:39 AM, Csongor wrote: FC> Hi, FC> I have a table that has a few short text fields [text(4000), text(1000)] FC> I would like to index. Do you think it is a good idea to index them FC> "simply", or is it better if I create auxilary fields which hold the MD5 FC> for th

indexing text

2004-06-11 Thread Fagyal, Csongor
Hi, I have a table that has a few short text fields [text(4000), text(1000)] I would like to index. Do you think it is a good idea to index them "simply", or is it better if I create auxilary fields which hold the MD5 for the text fields and index those? Would that be faster? Thank you, - Csong

Re: indexing text fields possible?

2002-05-20 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 04:33:41PM +0200, andy wrote: > Thank you Egor for you reply. > > I did read about indexing text column on the mysql site. So I tryed > to index my column like described. After 1 hour, I had to reboot my > machine because there was no other way. No other

Re: indexing text fields possible?

2002-05-20 Thread andy
Thank you Egor for you reply. I did read about indexing text column on the mysql site. So I tryed to index my column like described. After 1 hour, I had to reboot my machine because there was no other way. All the cpu was bussy and it seemed to me to be an endless loop. After rebooting I had to

Re: indexing text fields possible?

2002-05-20 Thread Egor Egorov
andy, Sunday, May 19, 2002, 7:06:00 PM, you wrote: a> I am wondering if it would be anyhow possible to make a search on a mysql a> textfield faster. Right now the table contains 294000 entries and takes a> about 40 MB of space. Is there a way to apply a index with a resonable a> amount of disk sp

indexing text fields possible?

2002-05-19 Thread andy
Hi there, I am wondering if it would be anyhow possible to make a search on a mysql textfield faster. Right now the table contains 294000 entries and takes about 40 MB of space. Is there a way to apply a index with a resonable amount of disk space? I am also not so sure if I should use text or sm