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Mysql fulltext search my.cnf optimization

I have open a question on http://serverfault.com/questions/353888/mysql-full-text-search-cause-high-usage-cpu Some user recommended asking here. We built a news site. Every day we will input tens of ...
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MySQL EXPLAIN doesn't show 'use index' for FULLTEXT

I have a basic table : create table fullTextTest ( id INT(11) NOT NULL, superText CHAR(255) NOT NULL, superLongText TEXT NOT NULL, primary key (`id`), FULLTEXT KEY `superText` ...
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Can I have an InnoDB master and MyISAM slaves with Full-Text for searching?

I'd like to use InnoDB on the master, for its transactional ability, but MyISAM on the slaves for the full-text search ability. Is this possible?
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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 ...
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Why does MyISAM support FULLTEXT Searching and InnoDB does not?

I know the basic differences between the MyISAM and InnoDB engines. In MySQL 5.6 beta, InnoDB will support fulltext search. But, I wonder why previous versions of InnobDB didn't support FTS? My guess ...
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FULLTEXT index ignored in BOOLEAN MODE with 'number of words' conditional

fulltext match is ignoring its index when I add a number of words conditional for its boolean mode. The selects are as follows: explain select * from seeds WHERE MATCH(text) AGAINST ("mount ...
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What database technologies do big search engines use?

Does anybody knows how Google or Yahoo perform searches for keywords against very very huge amounts of data? What sort of database or technologies do they employ for this? It takes few milliseconds, ...
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MySQL Full Text index issue

I Have a table articles with following data mysql> select * from articles; +----+-----------------------+------------------------------------------+ | id | title | body ...
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How to set full text catalog location SQL Server 2008/2012

I want to upgrade my SQL Server 2005 database to SQL Server 2012. In SQL Server 2005 you can set the location of the full text catalog when you create it. But in SQL Server 2012 (and in SQL Server ...
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slow query with fulltext and left join

I have 3 tables about 250,000 records. table1 is MyISAM, add fullindex with title and content, add index with pid. table2 and table3 are InnoDB, add index with pid. Only query table3, just cost ...
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Why does MATCH() give Score 0, if there are less rows in the database?

I followed this example from the Mysql Documentation: CREATE TABLE articles ( id INT UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, title VARCHAR(200), body TEXT, FULLTEXT ...
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Searching through lots of applications

Google search has instant search feature. While you are typing, it finds the pages. Apple.com search box. StackExchange ask question part finds similar questions while you are typing question title. ...