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Full-Text Indexes

Implement full-text indexes in MariaDB Server for efficient text search. This section guides you through creating and utilizing these indexes to optimize queries on large text datasets.

Definitive full-text index guide: MATCH() AGAINST syntax, FULLTEXT index creation, NATURAL/BOOLEAN/QUERY EXPANSION modes, stopwords, ft_min_word_length.

Explains stopwords for full-text indexes, the differing default lists in MyISAM and InnoDB, and how to override them, plus the full default MyISAM stopword list.

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