Joe Stump explores MySQLs FULLTEXT searching and suggests how you might use it in your own projects.MySQL has had FULLTEXT searching in one form or another since version 3.23.23. FULLTEXT indices in MySQL allow database administrators and programmers to designate any characterbased field.which allows for complex text searching against data stored in those fields.

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