Can anyone explain why LIKE queries do not use an index when the LIKE string contains
a forward slash?
Example:
CREATE TABLE words ( word varchar(250) PRIMARY KEY );
Populate table with 200,000+ rows
EXPLAIN SELECT * FROM words WHERE word LIKE 'abcdef';
This query uses the Primary key to
Can anyone explain why LIKE queries do not use an index when the
LIKE string contains a forward slash?
Follow-up to my own post:
The problem is with the '_' wildcard, but I still don't understand. My
previous examples were simplified, but here is the exact query:
SELECT * FROM words WHERE word
