Re: How to design
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Bob Field
Date: June 11, 2006 12:24PM
The trade-off between using LIKE and using FULLTEXT is accuracy versus speed. LIKE will return accurate results, but the potential is there to require a full-table scan. FULLTEXT returns quickly but has limitations regarding accuracy, keyword density, word length, etc.
LIKE can select for multple keywords, for example '%apple%green%', but they have to appear in the correct order. Using the normalized approach I mentioned there is some greater flexibility and performance.
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