I just realized, I think that indices may not avail you when you're doing a search
based on double-sided wildcards.
I'm afraid you may be forcing a full table-scan by performing that kind of search.
So run a few benchmark tests. Maybe populate a test database with a large volume
(like
Hi, I really hope someone can help me with this.
I'm new to PHP; just got started late last year.
I've put together a MySQL/Apache/PHP system to manage contacts. It's all
running locally on my Win2k system.
I have installed phpmyadmin also, and I used that utility to populate my tables.
So
