http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/the-bomb-vs-the-rifle-effective-data-searching Extreme Software Engineering Wed, 08 Sep 2010 06:45:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/the-bomb-vs-the-rifle-effective-data-searching/comment-page-1#comment-24 Bruno Lustosa Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:03:44 +0000 http://www.heavyworks.net/?p=115#comment-24 That's it, searching with LIKE is very very bad when your database has searched beyond a few hundred rows. When you have multiple fields (or tables)to search, things become much worse, because you have to combine several LIKE searchs with an OR, which will not run fast, even with text indexing on the fields. That’s it, searching with LIKE is very very bad when your database has searched beyond a few hundred rows.
When you have multiple fields (or tables)to search, things become much worse, because you have to combine several LIKE searchs with an OR, which will not run fast, even with text indexing on the fields.

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