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why/how does the number of matched columns influences the way of excecuting a query

Imagine the following situation: Table A uses MyISAM and contains 4 fields (text) with a combined FULLTEXT-index. FULLTEXT fulltext1 | fulltext2 | fulltext3 | fulltext4 Table B uses InnoDB and ...
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Slow ORDER BY with LIMIT

I have this query: SELECT * FROM location WHERE to_tsvector('simple',unaccent2("city")) @@ to_tsquery('simple',unaccent2('wroclaw')) order by displaycount I'm happy with it: "Sort ...
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How is LIKE implemented?

Can anyone explain how the LIKE operator is implemented in current database systems (e.g. MySQL or Postgres)? or point me to some references that explain it? The naive approach would be to inspect ...