Re: help with locate() function and index

2006-06-24 Thread kevin vicky
cution takes more than 30 seconds and I would like to improve this. I tried fulltext index on this field hoping that locate() will be faster, but it dint make any difference. It would be great help if you could help solve this problem. thanks On 6/24/06, John Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

help with locate() function and index

2006-06-23 Thread kevin vicky
Hi, I am trying to use locate() function to get position of a substring in a text field which on average has 2000 characters and the search substring is 30 -50 characters long. The table has around 2 million records and looking for a efficient way to do the search. I tried fulltext index but dint