Quickly search for a string in MySQL database?

Use FULLTEXT search to quickly search for a string. Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table DemoTable1554    -> (    -> Title text    -> ); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.63 sec)

Here is the query to create full text search −

mysql> create fulltext index faster_title on DemoTable1554(Title); Query OK, 0 rows affected, 1 warning (7.09 sec) Records: 0  Duplicates: 0  Warnings: 1

Insert some records in the table using insert command −

mysql> insert into DemoTable1554 values('John is working on MySQL database'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.26 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1554 values('Adam Smith is working on Java language'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.17 sec) mysql> insert into DemoTable1554 values('John smith is working on Python Language'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.17 sec)

Display all records from the table using select statement −

mysql> select * from DemoTable1554;

This will produce the following output −

+------------------------------------------+ | Title                                    | +------------------------------------------+ | John is working on MySQL database        | | Adam Smith is working on Java language   | | John smith is working on Python Language | +------------------------------------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Following is the query to quickly search for a string in a MySQL database. Here, we are searching for string “language” −

mysql> select * from DemoTable1554 where match(Title) against('language' in boolean mode);

This will produce the following output −

+------------------------------------------+ | Title                                    | +------------------------------------------+ | Adam Smith is working on Java language   | | John smith is working on Python Language | +------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)