Randy, could it be that the word 'bird' appears in more than half of all rows in your dataset? I strongly recommend to spend a few minutes reading the manual about Fulltext Search.
Regards, Thomas On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Randy Paries wrote: > Hello > > I have a table > CREATE TABLE community_files ( > id int(3) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment, > type int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', > category_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default '0', > filename varchar(50) NOT NULL default '', > path varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > description varchar(255) NOT NULL default '', > PRIMARY KEY (id), > UNIQUE KEY id (id), > KEY id_2 (id), > KEY type (type), > KEY catid (category_id), > FULLTEXT KEY description (description) > ) TYPE=MyISAM; > > Where I run a query like > select * from community_files where description like '%bird%'; > > I get records back, but if I try to do > SELECT * FROM community_files WHERE MATCH (description) AGAINST ('bird' ); > I get nothing back > > I am running mysqld Ver 3.23.58 on rh9 > > Thanks for any help > > Randy -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]