Martyn Wendon wrote: > Hi, > > I'm new to MySQL and indeed SQL in general (coming from an MS Access and > Flat Text File background). > > I have data in text form at the moment of the following fields: > > ID (Auto increment) > ARTIST (Text up to 255 characters long) > DESCRIPTION (Text up to 255 characters long) > PRICE (Decimal up to 000000.00 long)
CREATE TABLE table ( id integer DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, artist varchar(255), description varchar(255), price decimal( 8,2 ) key( artist(20), description(20)), -- for queries on just artist or artist and description. key( description(20)), --for queries on just desctiption fulltext( artist, description) -- for queries on FULL words anywhere in artist and description ); Read http://www.mysql.com/doc/C/R/CREATE_INDEX.html and http://www.mysql.com/doc/F/u/Fulltext_Search.html to understand the indexes better. b. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
