You are right, It is slow b'cause it forces sequential search. I don't see REGEXP as a ans to this.
Sharmad On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:07:01AM -0400, Miles Thompson wrote: > > Better yet, check the the MySQL docs and confirm whether or not there is a > difference in speed between "=" and "LIKE". If there is I'd bet it's > because LIKE forces a sequential read of the index, if not the column. > > I don't see how using a regex would be any faster? Happy to be proved wrong. > > > At 07:16 AM 12/7/2001 +0200, Andrey Hristov wrote: > >you can use REGEXP instead of like. > > > > > Can anyone tell me how would i replace the following query with a "=" > > > > > > SELECT * from table_name WHERE name LIKE "%name%"; > > > > > > I want to have the same functionality like "LIKE" but having no LIKE > > word in > > > it. > > > Basically i want it for a search engine and i heard that using LIKE > > decreases > > > the speed like nothing as compared to "=" > > > > > > -TIA > > > Sharmad > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > >PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Feel free to contact me (flames about my english and the useless of this driver will be redirected to /dev/null, oh no, it's full...). (Michael Beck, describing the PC-speaker sound device) --------------------- __ _ _ _ _ |_|_||_||_||\/||_|| \ _|| || || \| || ||_/ "What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence." Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian philosopher -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
