Re: search through one/several tables

[Alec.Cawley]

"mel list_php" <list_php@stripped> wrote on 23/03/2005 10:14:07:

> Hi list,
> 
> I would like to search for something into one or several tables.
> My first idea was to retrieve the tables' names, then for each of them 
> retrieve the columns' name and have a look in each of this column.
> Is there a more elegant (fast) way to do that with mysql?
> 
> Somebody has some tips/doc where I could look for search engines?My 
problem 
> is that I don't have one big table with all the data but several little 
ones 
> with few fields, so I don't think solutions like Lucene could work.

If your tables are all identical, which it sounds like, you want to create 
a Merge Table: see
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/merge-storage-engine.html

        Alec