http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/the-bomb-vs-the-rifle-effective-data-searching Extreme Software Engineering Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:29:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.heavyworks.net/blog/posts/the-bomb-vs-the-rifle-effective-data-searching/comment-page-1#comment-535 Rocky Tue, 12 Apr 2011 03:24:41 +0000 http://www.heavyworks.net/?p=115#comment-535 Great tinhikng! That really breaks the mold! Great tinhikng! That really breaks the mold!

]]> 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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