On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Ralph Wood
<[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a table called 'entries' with lots of sentences, one per row
> (id). I need to find specific sentences that have the words I'm looking
> for anywhere in them.

If you're using MySQL, you can create a FULLTEXT index on the
field(s) in question and use MATCH:

<http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/fulltext-natural-language.html>

Other RDBMSs may have an equivalent.

HTH,
-- 
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected]

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