Full Text Search with MySQL 5.1: New Features & How To

Full Text Search is an important feature in MySQL. Many large web sites use Full Text Search to search thru the content (texts, titles, names and etc) stored in MySQL database. MySQL 5.1 delivers new feature: custom parsers for Full Text Search, which will allow to customize search applications. Other search solutions can be integrated with MySQL using another new feature of MySQL 5.1: custom plug-ins.

From this presentation you will know:

1. What are the new features in MySQL 5.1 Full Text Search

2. How to tune MySQL Full Text Search for maximum performance

3. How to perform a Full Text Search with automatic typos correction

4. How to integrate MySQL with external search engines (i.e. Sphinx Search)

5. How to search thru Russian (morphology) and Japanese (n-grams) texts

6. How to create your own parser for MySQL 5.1 Full Text Search