MySQL: “SOUNDS LIKE” vs. Full-Text search
Posted by Sheeri Cabral on Dec 14, 2007
A friend of mine asked me:
I’m hoping you can help me out with something — I’m trying to optimize a search feature. Since it uses a MySQL database, the search already uses the
LIKEstatement to get matches for a search query, we might be needing something more flexible. I found mention on MySQL’s website about something called theSOUNDS LIKEexpression that can be more flexible thanLIKE. Do you know anything about this? If you do, can you point me a direction where I might be able to learn more about it? Thanks in advance for your help!
My response:
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