Below are examples on how to find documents by Search Term using the MySQL database:
insurance
Will return documents that contain the search term insurance.
auto home
Will return documents that contain auto or home.
+auto +home
Will return documents that contain auto and home.
+insurance -auto
Will return document records that contain insurance and not auto
grocer*
Will return documents that contain the term, beginning with grocer.
For more examples and additional usage information, please see the MySQL Reference Manual.
Notes on special characters:
* is a multiple wild card character;
Parenthesis characters () can be used to group words into sub-expressions.
Additional Information:
Boolean Mode is used for Full-Text searches.
MySQL contains a stop list of words that will be ignored in full-text searches. The full list can be found here.
The default minimum length of words that are found by full-text searches is three characters.