Re: How to design
Posted by: Bob Field
Date: June 11, 2006 10:02AM

My mistake, it meant to read g1.groupID in the first line:

SELECT g1.itemID, g1.groupID
FROM grouptest AS g1
LEFT JOIN grouptest AS g2 ON g1.groupID = g2.groupID AND g1.groupID != 0 AND g1.score < g2.score
WHERE keywords LIKE '%apple%'
AND g2.itemID IS NULL;

Performance of this query is potentially slow. Because of the leading '%' in the LIKE '%apple%' clause, the entire table needs to be scanned for potentially matching records. If you could guarantee that the keyword always appeared at the start of the column, the clause LIKE 'apple%' could perform much faster if the keywords field was indexed.

One possibility would be to adopt a normalized approach to storing keywords. Since items-to-keywords is a many-to-many relationship, ideally you should have all potential keywords listed in a separate table, and a bridge table with rows indicating which keywords are applicable to which item. Proper indexing will make querying by specific keywords very fast.

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